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Rules for Becoming a Legend
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  • Published: 13 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781101617762
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Rules for Becoming a Legend

A Novel

  • Timothy S. Lane
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13 Mar 2014
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13 Mar 2014
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A spirit-stirring debut about basketball, family, and an unlikely underdog who overcomes adversity to become a legend

Basketball prodigy Jimmy “Kamikaze” Kirkus is destined for the NBA. But before he can sail off into a golden future, Jimmy must reckon with a tragic past and with a curse that has haunted his family for generations. His father had been a basketball great himself, but his dreams of stardom were traded in for a hasty marriage and parenthood. Born into a house haunted by wasted talent, alcoholism, and death, will Jimmy fall victim to the Kirkus Curse or break it once and for all?

In the same vein as the wildly popular Friday Night Lights, Rules for Becoming a Legend uses sports as a lens through which to understand family, community, catastrophe, and hope. This spirit-igniting debut announces Lane as an extraordinary young writer to watch.
  • Published: 13 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781101617762
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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Praise for Rules for Becoming a Legend


"With Rules for Becoming a Legend basketball has its Friday Night Lights, Timothy S. Lane has a game-winner, and you get something to read 'til you'll miss your subway stop. What makes for a squandered life? Can a man turn around who he is like he can turn around a jumpshot? This is a great basketball novel and more than just that. Lane writes about the universal by way of the bouncing, orange particular, and his book's a triumph."
--Darin Strauss, author of More Than It Hurts You

"A slam dunk of a debut. Rules for Becoming a Legend speaks to heartland America with all the authenticity and pathos of great Springsteen song--it'll hit you like a brick wall."
--Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here and The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

"Rules for Becoming a Legend is inventive, stylish, and moves straight to the heart. The story of would-be legend Jimmy "Kamikaze" Kirkus is about so much more than high school basketball; it is a book about fathers and sons, expectations and disappointments, fame and infamy. Like Kamikaze Kirkus, Timothy S. Lane drives his superb debut novel straight at the wall, without flinching."
-- Kristopher Jansma, author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards