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"This is as good a novel--as well written a novel--centering on Dr. Naismith's game as any I've read."
--Ira Berkow

"Heroes is the only literate fiction ever written about basketball."
--W.P. Kinsella

"Heroes is a terrific book. I stayed up over Christmas reading it, and I'm recommending it to friends. Shields has a wonderful human touch."
--Bob Greene, The San Francisco Chronicle

"Heroes is that rare thing, a really good sports novel that does with basketball what Mark Harris or Bernard Malamud did with baseball: make the passion, pull, and mythological grace of the game integral to the characters."
--The Chicago Tribune

"A generous novel about those two great American preoccupations, lost innocence and sports."
--James Marcus, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Like a good point guard, Mr. Shields knows how to control the flow of a game."
--Arthur Krystal, The New York Times Book Review

When Heroes was first published 33 years ago, the Los Angeles Reader called it "almost a parody of the modern American novel." And it is indeed exactly the kind of conventional, linear, realistic, old-fashioned novel that David Shields came to disavow and argue against. But Marrow Books is proud to bring Heroes back into print, because (like so much of Shields' work, from Remote to Black Planet to Reality Hunger to War Is Beautiful) it has proven to be uncannily prescient. The subject matter--college sports corruption--is now being debated daily, and this book led Shields to collaborate recently with Rick Telander, author of The Hundred Yard Lie, on a screenplay that imagines a work-strike by two college basketball teams in the championship game. The film, co-produced by Carmelo Anthony, is being developed by Mandalay Sports Media and Netflix.