The Moves Make the Man, Bruce Brooks
The Moves Make the Man, Bruce Brooks
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The Moves Make the Man

Author: Bruce Brooks

Narrator: Peter Francis James

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 08/25/2009


Synopsis

Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step with twist to the left, stutter into jumper, blind pass. These are me. The moves make the man. The moves make me.Jerome foxworthy -- the Jayfox to his friends -- likes to think he can handle anything. He handled growing up without a father. He handled being the first black kid in school. And he sure can handle a basketball. Then Jerome meets bix Rivers -- mysterious and moody, but a great athlete. So Jerome decides to teach bix his game. He can tell that bix has the talent. All he's got to do is learn the right moves....

About Bruce Brooks

Bruce Brooks was born in Virginia and began writing fiction at age ten. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 and from the University Of Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1980. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, newsletter editor, movie critic, teacher and lecturer.Bruce Brooks has twice received the Newbery Honor, first in 1985 for Moves Make the Man, and again in 1992 for What Hearts. He is also the author of Everywhere, Midnight Hour Encores, Asylum for Nightface, Vanishing, and Throwing Smoke. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

About Peter Francis James

Peter Francis James has starred in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions, as well as on such television programs as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, New York Undercover and State of Affairs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Josiah

Bruce Brooks is an incredibly awesome writer. When he's at his best, as he seems to be in this book, reading his words is like riding the world's most thrilling roller coaster, dipping and rolling and dropping and whirling at a breathless pace, hardly able to mentally catch up with what's happening......more

Goodreads review by Jenny

I really enjoyed this book. It surprised me with its subtlety and nuances. The novel is about a boy named Bix, and it's told from the first-person perspective of Bix's friend, Jerome. The book takes place in the 1960s, and Jerome is black, and Bix is white. Jerome first sees Bix at a baseball game (......more

Goodreads review by Alex

I recommend this strange and beautiful book for readers of all ages. It is a YA book and I think gets heavy rotation in schools. I may have even read it when I was younger, but don't remember having read it. It's fascinating to read as an adult. It tells the story of a young african-american boy in......more