Fictitious pro football story told by a real nfl player. North dallas forty paperback october 30, 2000 by peter gent author. North dallas forty is excessive, melodramatic, and onesided. North dallas forty hardcover january 1, 1973 by peter gent author visit amazons peter gent page. In a society in which major league sporting events have replaced sunday worship as the religion of choice, north dallas forty appears like a desecration at the altar. Competition and stakes in this arena are high, and those who achieve success pay a high price, too. North dallas forty chronicles a week in the life of phil elliott, an aging receiver for a dallas football team. North dallas forty soundtrack from 1979, composed by john scott. In this film, directed by ted kotcheff the apprenticeship of duddy kravitz, the national football league is revealed to be more about the money than the game. Oct 02, 2011 a novel by pete gent, north dallas forty, based on his five years with the cowboys, graphically depicted the pain and anguish the public couldnt feel or see on their television screens. Football players cuss at each other alot of the times use words such as faggot, sonofabitch, and others. North dallas forty nude scenes 9 images and 1 video including appearances from savannah smith boucher. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. His movie, and the novel it is taken from, are a pro football parable of drugs and pain.
North dallas forty, the movie version of an autobiographical novel written by former dallas cowboy receiver pete gent, came to the silver screen in 1979. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Oct 01, 2011 north dallas forty was arguably the best book about pro football ever written. After leaving professional football, gent wrote several novels dealing with the sport.
North dallas forty its no surprise that the national football league refused to cooperate in the making of north dallas forty. Oct 30, 2000 north dallas forty paperback october 30, 2000 by peter gent author. The production is a most realistic, hardhitting and perceptive look. This sequel to gents very funny look behind the scenes of professional football, north dallas forty, is not what youd expect. His first and most famous book, a semiautobiographical novel entitled north dallas forty, was published in 1973. It was directed by ted kotcheff and based on the bestselling novel by peter gent. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Both were based on true characters and events and tore the curtain off the real nfl of the late 60s and early 70s. North dallas forty by peter gent 1973, hardcover for. Quello che non puoi superare con lodio lo devi temere.
Cover is in good condition with mild signs of shelf wear. Muddled overall, but perceptive and brutally realistic, north dallas forty also benefits from strong performances by nick nolte and. Competition and stakes in this arena are high, and those. It may show signs of wear such as a slight bend in the cover or the spine show previous wear but is not rolled. Uses of the word bastard, and alot other cuss words that arent as violent. Well known to book collectors and booklovers, our site is an excellent resource for discovering a rough value of an old book. Terri hoffman, circa 1970, inspired devotion among her followers. This new novel by the author of north dallas forty is a gritty tale of what money and national attention have done to corrupt college sports since the 1960s. Fulfillment by amazon fba is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their. Charles durning, nick nolte, dabney coleman, bo svenson, mac davis directed by ted kotcheff genre. A profootball player nick nolte begins to question his teams policy of relying upon painkillers. The very least you can say about peter gents all tough book about pro football is that its like a cold slow bum and youll be glad this former dallas cowboy has found a longer term career he can write.
Spradlin set in the decadent world of american professional football in the late 1970s. Football always seemed larger than lifethat was the primary source of its appealand football writing always tended toward extremes of melodrama and burlesque rather than the lyrical realism. Gent was a wide receiver who played for the cowboys from 1964 through 1968, and one of the fun parts of the book is guessing to just what extent players in the book resemble their reallife counterparts. North dallas forty herois sem amanha, 1979 trailer youtube. North dallas forty, the movie version of an autobiographical novel written by former dallas cowboy receiver pete gent, came to the silver screen. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. North dallas forty 1979 was a critically and commercially successful adaptation of peter gents 1973 novel which chronicledin thinly fictionalized formthe five seasons the author spent playing for the national football league. Loosely based on the dallas cowboys team of the early 1970s. If a fan wants to read about what the nfl is really like, that is.
Nick nolte mac davis charles durning 1979 the fast life begins to take its toll on two funloving but aging football players. North dallas after forty 1990 edition open library. May 22, 2012 north dallas forty chronicles a week in the life of phil elliott, an aging receiver for a dallas football team. North dallas forty by peter gent is a novelized equivalent of baseballs nonfiction ball four by jim bouton. Thompson including the drinking, drugs, and sex and its perhaps the best look inside the landry cowboys and life as a cowboy. As such, it belongs to the mainstream of football fiction written since the early 1900s.
Browse nook tablet covers, ereader accessories, chargers, headphones, and more from top brands such as kate spade new york and lilly pulitzer. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Yet, despite the broken bones and sleepless nights, most of the players wished it could go on forever. Most of the major characters are back, and their lives after football a. Spradlin set in the decadent world of american profe. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Remembering pete gent, who wrote north dallas forty. North dallas forty, pete gent, 1973 wide receiver gent was a cowboys teammate of rentzels. North dallas forty by peter gent, 1973 gent, a former dallas cowboy wide receiver, wrote this novel about a fictional football team in dallas but not named the cowboys, wink wink. Former nfl player peter gent, whose book about the seamier side of football was.
Protagonist phil elliott tells the story of the dallas cowboys of the 60s who party, drink, use drugs, womanize, endure terrible pain, suffer racism, and feel fear. North dallas forty was arguably the best book about pro football ever written. This book picks up where north dallas forty ended, and many of the same characters appear, along with new ones. If a fan wants to read about what the nfl is really like, that is the book. North dallas forty by peter gent 1973 i love this book. Muddled overall, but perceptive and brutally realistic, north dallas forty also benefits from strong performances by nick nolte and charles durning.
A novel by pete gent, north dallas forty, based on his five years with the cowboys, graphically depicted the pain and anguish the public couldnt feel or see on their television screens. North dallas forty 1979 a brutal satire of american professional football in which a veteran passcatchers individuality and refusal to become part of the team family is bitterly resented by. Peter gent does an exceptional job of pulling the reader into the rough and tumble world of professional football, while exposing the sordid, nomercy inside story. Our books are stored in amazon and shipped from their warehouse. North dallas forty is a cult movie which occupies a curious place in the affections of both sports fans and movie buffs in that its really the film about american football that is the preferred production on the subject, especially if either you have no interest or knowledge of the game, or even if you actively despise the contests and all. Peter gent, 69, a onetime wide receiver with the dallas cowboys, whose 1973 novel, north dallas forty, exposed the drug use, hypocrisy and pervasive pain in the life of a pro football team. Inside is in good condition with foxing of the pages. Nick nolte is north dallas bulls passcatcher phillip. Remembering pete gent, who wrote north dallas forty the. Oct 12, 2011 north dallas forty movie trailer starring. Its main characters, a quarterback and a wide receiver, are widely considered to be based on don meredith and gent, respectively.
The screenplay was by kotcheff, gent, frank yablans, and nancy dowd. To make ends meet, he, much in the fashion of his creator, wrote about professional. A great place to listen to music or shoot a game of pool. North dallas forty is a 1979 american sports comedydrama film starring nick nolte, mac davis, and g. The passion and the pain of north dallas forty the. North dallas after forty by peter gent, 1990, signet edition, in english. At the close of north dallas 40, phil elliot was forced off the dallas team and out of professional football. These are some great reads, in my book chicago suntimes. The screenplay was by kotcheff, gent, frank yablans, and nancy dowd uncredited.
Peter gent wrote two of the greatest sports fiction books ever, north dallas forty and the franchise. Aug 26, 20 north dallas forty is excessive, melodramatic, and onesided. A semifictional account of life as a professional americanstyle football player. North dallas forty by peter gent if semi tough is a look into the lasciviousness of football through rosecolored lenses, then north dallas forty is a sobering glance at exactly how messed up the world of professional sports can actually be. This home was built in 1979 and last sold on 12006 for. It tells the story of a talented, but conflicted football player in the nfl. Before his death, gent told espn, i was shocked that in mid60s america, dallas could have an nfl franchise and the black players could not live near the practice field in north dallas, which was one of the reasons i titled the book north dallas forty. The other night, the author of north dallas forty went to see his movie for the fifth time in four days. North dallas forty by peter gent, 1974, new american library edition, in english north dallas forty 1974 edition open library. Top nasa images solar system collection ames research center. View more property details, sales history and zestimate data on zillow. His novel is a rebellious, scathing takedown of americas team. Mixing the potent thrills of the gridiron with a flavorful, occasionally harrowing, depiction of what happens in the hours and days surrounding the big. With nick nolte, charles durning, mac davis, dayle haddon.