The Best There Ever Was
John Ed Bradley. Penguin Books, $10 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-14-016767-2
A losing college football coach turns his lung cancer to his advantage. (Feb.)
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Reviewed on: 02/03/1992
Genre: Fiction
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