Grisham, John.

Playing for pizza / John Grisham. - London : Century, 2007. - 262 p. ; 22 cm.

Playing for Pizza is a short novel about a fallen American football star who can no longer get work in the National Football League and whose agent, as a last resort, signs a deal for him to play for the Parma Panthers, in Parma, Italy. The quarterback's move to a small city in a foreign land leads to a series of cultural misadventures. The idea for the novel grew out of time John Grisham spent in Italy researching his last novel, The Broker , which was set in Bologna.

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Quarterbacks (Football)--Fiction.
Americans--Italy--Parma--Fiction.


Parma (Italy)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

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