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“The book is closely and boldly observed, frankly reported, ferociously written with both humor and humanity; it teems with wonderful lines, rich and vivid passages. The end result is what all coaches long for, the magical pleasure of watching a perfectly managed game that ends in a great victory.”
— Thomas Powers, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
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“Unputdownable....Whatever your
interest, be it in sports, business, or even politics, Collision Low Crossers is a great read. You won’t be disappointed.”
— Forbes
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“A rare behind-the-scenes look at
what makes a football organization tick.”
— Washington Post
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“Entirely suspenseful, even when
one knows how it will turn out...Dawidoff has established a reputation as one
of the best chroniclers of sports in American life....A deeply nuanced look at
an organization—a business—with characters who leap off the page.”
— Chicago Tribune
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“Superb....Excellent stuff....
Dawidoff is as good as they come.”
— Newsday
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“A wonderful book by a talented writer I hope to read more from in the future.”
— Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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“A fascinating, incisive look at
football, written in prose that soars like a perfect pass.”
— Shelf Awareness, a Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2013
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“This is a superlative insider’s
portrait of one NFL team, and it’s accessible to casual fans and irresistible
to NFL geeks.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“Dawidoff is a crack writer,
saturating the book with the best of a year’s worth of anecdotes and lacing it
with the backgrounds of coaches and players with an intimacy that begs the
question how he got all this sharp and often moving material...Dawidoff has a
sure hand with the nature of passion, the rancor, and weeping joy that
characterizes every season in the most popular sport in the country.
Insightful, immediate sportswriting. Readers will feel every bit of the team’s
frustration and elation.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“It is rare indeed that any writer can infiltrate any sports team so thoroughly as Nicholas Dawidoff has done in Collision Low Crossers…a sports tour de force.”
— Frank Deford, news commentator and member of the Sportswriters Hall of Fame
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“By converging elements of the best
sport literature—analysis, expose, humor—into an expansive narrative, he takes
readers inside the windowless offices of the Jets’ Florham Park, New Jersey,
headquarters and onto sweat-stained practice fields where men become boys and
friendships rise and fall.”
— Publishers Weekly
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A beautiful portrait of a wounded family.... inquisitive and graceful.
— New York Times
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Marvelous... you'll simply want the story-his story-to continue on and on.
— Chicago Tribune
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Evocative.... The crackle of Dawidoff's writing and his unstinting...sensitivity make his...journey compelling.
— Washington Post