Willowgate Press
Title: Nobody Roots for Goliath
Author: Phil Hutcheon
Publication Date: December 15, 2006
Distributors: Biblio Distribution, Ingram, Baker and Taylor
Size: 9" by 6", 212 pages
Price: $13.95
Category: Fiction

Marvin Walker is a seven-foot six-inch basketball prodigy from Harlem. Having promised his godmother that he will earn a degree before moving on to the NBA and the millions that await him, Marvin is woefully unprepared for the classroom challenges in his path. Wade is an English instructor, two feet shorter, a generation older, and with no future millions on the horizon. Already encumbered by a demented dissertation advisor and a disenchanted wife, Wade takes on the daunting task of helping Marvin improve his academic skills. Guns, drugs, fractured grammar, fickle lovers and politically correct morons plague their progress as issues of academic integrity, interracial coupling, domestic violence and the exploitation of student-athletes test whether the unlikely bond formed between these two men can transcend their differences of age, race and economic expectation. Complications abound as the worlds of academia and athletics collide in this irreverent novel of contemporary college life.

Author Biography:

Phil Hutcheon grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area as a fan of the Giants, Warriors and 49ers. He attended the University of the Pacific and Rice University. He teaches composition and film courses at Delta College in Stockton, California. Nobody Roots for Goliath is his first novel.


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