PLAYING FOR PIZZA (LARGE PRINT) by John Grisham

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Is there any genre John Grisham can’t write? It would be enough to have written only the spellbinding legal thrillers which made him famous. But he’s also succeeded with novels like A Painted House, which showed readers he could write just as well outside the courtroom. And when he did return to court with the true-crime drama An Innocent Man, he showed us he was just as comfortable writing nonfiction. His latest book shows us that whatever he writes displays his irresistible storytelling powers.

Playing for Pizza is about a down-on-his-luck American football star offered a chance to play again. The rub? The team is the Parma Panthers—and they’re in Italy! Misadventures abound, of course, and they’ll have you laughing out loud as Grisham steps outside the courtroom for a hilarious romp inspired by a trip he took to research The Broker, which was set in Bologna. “I was pleasantly surprised to find real American football in Italy,” Grisham says, “and as I dug deeper a novel came together. The research was tough—food, wine, opera, football, Italian culture—but someone had to do it.” Like us, you’ll be glad it was Grisham, since “no one does it better” (The Washington Post).

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