Synopses & Reviews
Jerry Maxwell and his good friend Roary are both handicapped. They divide their time between Max's bar in San Francisco and the bleachers of the Oakland Sports Complex to cheer on the Golden State Warriors. Together the two set out to make Jerry's dream of playing professional basketball a reality.
Inside Moves was made into a critically-acclaimed film in 1980 by Richard Donner.
Selected and introduced by celebrated author Sherman Alexie.
Synopsis
Two handicapped friends, Jerry and Roary, set out to make Jerry's dream of playing professional basketball a reality.
About the Author
Todd Walton's first novel,
Inside Moves, was published in 1978 by Doubleday and made into a motion picture directed by Richard Donner. Todd's second novel,
Forgotten Impulses, was published in 1980 by Simon and Schuster and chosen by
The New York Times as a notable book of the year.
Louie and Women was published by Dutton in 1983,
Night Train was published by Mercury House in 1986, and
Ruby and Spear was published by Bantam in 1996. His non-fiction work
Open Body: Creating Your Own Yoga was published by Avon in 1998. In May of 2000, 10-Speed published
The Writer's Path, a book of Todd's original writing exercises. In addition to his writing, Todd is a professional musician. His wife is the cellist Marcia Sloane. Todd's latest CD is
Mystery Inventions, duets for piano and bass, and Todd also plays the incidental piano music on the audio versions of his books.
Sherman Alexie is the author of, most recently, War Dances from Grove Press, and the poetry collection Face from Hanging Loose Press. He is the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award, 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2001 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and a Special Citation for the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. Smoke Signals, the film he wrote and co-produced, won the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. He lives with his family in Seattle.