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Nanci Kincaid

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Nanci Kincaid is the author of three previous books -- two novels, Balls and Crossing Blood, and a collection of stories, Pretending the Bed Is a Raft -- and is known for what Elle magazine called her "exuberant female characters [who] seduce with bouncy charm and then -- thwack -- come at you from näytä lisää left field with gritty insights about life and love." She lives in Hawaii with her husband. They have four grown children näytä vähemmän

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Tekijän teokset

Eat, Drink, and Be from Mississippi (2009) — Tekijä — 105 kappaletta
Verbena (2002) 77 kappaletta
Pretending the Bed is a Raft (1997) — Tekijä — 56 kappaletta
Crossing Blood (1992) 45 kappaletta
Balls (1998) 42 kappaletta

Associated Works

New Stories from the South 2006: The Year's Best (2000) — Avustaja — 56 kappaletta
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1991 (1991) — Avustaja — 32 kappaletta
My Life Without Me [2003 film] (2003) — Original story — 25 kappaletta
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1992 (1992) — Avustaja — 22 kappaletta
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1994 (1994) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1990 (1990) — Avustaja — 18 kappaletta
The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers (2002) — Avustaja — 14 kappaletta
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1988 (1988) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta

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Hands down a 5-star book for me. My only tiny quibble is that I get exasperated when there aren't chapters, or at least page-breaks that make me slow down. (But maybe that quibble is with myself rather than with the novel.)
 
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HeatherMoss | 6 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jun 22, 2022 |
Even though I really enjoy college football and I am a tiny bit obsessed with the television show Friday Night Lights, I didn't actually expect this book to be as good as it was. I think I have sports on one end of my brain and good books on the other, and ne'er the twain shall meet.

But Nanci Kincaid, an author I picked up in my Read Local campaign, proved me wrong. With razor-sharp insight most likely gained through her own experience as the wife of a college football coach, she narrates the story of Dixie and Mac Gibbs through the voices of Dixie, their daughter Sarah, their mothers, and other women who are connected in various ways to the Gibbs' lives. The book follows Mac and Dixie from high school and college, when he is the quarterback and she is a cheerleader, into marriage, parenthood, and Mac's continually evolving career in coaching. I don't want to spoil anything, so I'll just say that this is a story of how football--and winning--can become the other woman.

Kincaid did a great job of bringing us into the world of college football in the southeast, using the story to peel back the facade on the pressure coaches are under to cheat, the pervading culture of sexism and racism, and the absurd bedfellows made by church and college ball. Folks outside the SEC may have a hard time suspending disbelief for much of this book; but for those of us down south, it almost seems like a work of non-fiction.
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rhowens | 1 muu arvostelu | Nov 26, 2019 |
If this book contained a subtitle, it would be "The Rise and Fall of Mac Gibbs." The rise and fall are told from the perspective of several women in Mac's wife, including his wife and daughter, his mother and mother-in-law, the wives from the various football coaches and the mothers of several black athletes. The novel begins with Mac as the quarterback of a winning Alabama college football team. Although good, he wasn't good enough to be picked up by the NFL. However, this did not seem to bother Mac because his desire was to coach. Beginning as a high school football coach, he advances to an Alabama university and eventually becomes the head coach. As a coach, he continues the reputation as a winning football team through the recruitment and development of the team players. Much of his time is spent with public relation opportunities and courting monies from sponsors. However, his passion for football is at the expense of his relationship with his wife and children. It is also a novel how a man's love for football costs him his integrity.

This novel's structure reminded me of Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible in that a primary character's story is told through the perspective of those who love him. The various voices included in this book provided a clear description of these characters as well as Mac Gibbs. If your hesitation of reading this book was like mine because football is central to the plot, please don't let this defer you. It is actually about a man whose obsession causes him to lose perspective regarding what is truly important, your family.
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John_Warner | 1 muu arvostelu | Sep 20, 2019 |
this looked like it would be a charming, quirky character driven book, and it was for the first 1/4. Then it became predictable, trite and preachy. Too bad! my run of great reads has ended! On to the next...
 
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Rdra1962 | 8 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 1, 2018 |

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