The Quarterback

Year of Publication
1970
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
192 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: David Scott Milton
Publisher
Dell
City
New York
Genre
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Abstract
Jimmy Jassy is a 30-something football legend whose fame and skills are waning. When he travels from New York to Forbes Field to play the Steelers, he revisits his youth and hometown along Route 19, as well as his boozing, womanizing, and failing marriage.
Notes
Carnegie Mellon University is referred to as Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Clarion University of Pennsylvania is disguised as Collier State Teachers College.
Author Biography
David Scott Milton (1934-2020), born to a working-class Jewish family in Pittsburgh, was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He lived in California.
Time
1930s-60s
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