TY - BOOK AU - Grisham,John TI - Playing for pizza SN - 9781846053689 U1 - 813.54 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Century KW - Quarterbacks (Football) KW - Fiction KW - Americans KW - Italy KW - Parma KW - Parma (Italy) KW - Social life and customs N2 - 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 ER -