The House of Moses All-Stars

A Novel

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On sale May 15, 2012 | 496 Pages | 9781609803711

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A hilarious road novel about an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a renovated hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. The House of Moses All-Stars is considered by many to be one of the best basketball novels--a vivid and historically based account by basketball's most celebrated writer.

Depicting the travails of a young Jewish man, desperate after a series of professional and personal misfortunes, who joins a Jewish professional basketball team at the height of the Depression, The House of Moses All-Stars is a passionate portrayal of Aaron Steiner’s struggle to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals. As the members of his motley crew travel West to California through an anti-Semitic land that disdains and rebuffs them, they discover that their nation is as confused as they are--torn between its fears of foreigners and poverty, and its belief in democratic ideals of tolerance and opportunity. Told with a rueful eye, The House of Moses All-Stars looks critically and lovingly at what it means to be an outsider in America.

“With seven books on basketball to his credit, six of them novels, [Rosen is] the game’s
foremost literary chronicler.” -Wall Street Journal

“Mr. Rosen . . . skillfully induces the reader to join ‘the Brotherhood of the Sacred Hoop.’” -New York Times Book Review
  • SELECTION | 1997
    New York Times Notable Book
  • AWARD | 1997
    New York Times Notable Book
© Seven Stories Press
A native of the Bronx and longtime pal of basketball guru Phil Jackson, CHARLEY ROSEN led the league in technical fouls during each of his six years as a coach in the now-defunct Continental Basketball Association. Since then he has become the world’s foremost writer of fiction and nonfiction on the subject of basketball, chronicling the drama that takes place both on and off the court. His many novels include The House of Moses All-Stars, a New York Times Notable Book, and Sammy Wong: All-American. His non-fiction works include The Scandals of ’51: How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball and More than a Game, with Phil Jackson. Rosen is an analyst for hoopshype.com and a devotee of the Triangle Offense. He lives in Accord, NY. View titles by Charley Rosen

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A hilarious road novel about an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a renovated hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. The House of Moses All-Stars is considered by many to be one of the best basketball novels--a vivid and historically based account by basketball's most celebrated writer.

Depicting the travails of a young Jewish man, desperate after a series of professional and personal misfortunes, who joins a Jewish professional basketball team at the height of the Depression, The House of Moses All-Stars is a passionate portrayal of Aaron Steiner’s struggle to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals. As the members of his motley crew travel West to California through an anti-Semitic land that disdains and rebuffs them, they discover that their nation is as confused as they are--torn between its fears of foreigners and poverty, and its belief in democratic ideals of tolerance and opportunity. Told with a rueful eye, The House of Moses All-Stars looks critically and lovingly at what it means to be an outsider in America.

“With seven books on basketball to his credit, six of them novels, [Rosen is] the game’s
foremost literary chronicler.” -Wall Street Journal

“Mr. Rosen . . . skillfully induces the reader to join ‘the Brotherhood of the Sacred Hoop.’” -New York Times Book Review

Awards

  • SELECTION | 1997
    New York Times Notable Book
  • AWARD | 1997
    New York Times Notable Book

Author

© Seven Stories Press
A native of the Bronx and longtime pal of basketball guru Phil Jackson, CHARLEY ROSEN led the league in technical fouls during each of his six years as a coach in the now-defunct Continental Basketball Association. Since then he has become the world’s foremost writer of fiction and nonfiction on the subject of basketball, chronicling the drama that takes place both on and off the court. His many novels include The House of Moses All-Stars, a New York Times Notable Book, and Sammy Wong: All-American. His non-fiction works include The Scandals of ’51: How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball and More than a Game, with Phil Jackson. Rosen is an analyst for hoopshype.com and a devotee of the Triangle Offense. He lives in Accord, NY. View titles by Charley Rosen

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