Under a Basketball Moon

Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll: A GEECHEE boys taleUnder a Basketball Moon is the coming of age story of Skip walker the first coach to take a black college team to the NCAA Final Four. Born in the 1960s during the Hippie revolution growing up during the school desegregation era in the regentrifying city of Charleston South Carolina now likely the worlds top tourist destination in his diaries Skip a video gamer of some repute takes us on a wild ride that ends with the inauguration of the first black president of the United States.Skips wife and childhood sweetheart Veronica Browning Walker likely the highest compensated labor arbitration is an integral character her son and wards being student-athletes subject to the NCAAs draconian rules when it comes to players sharing in the economic largesse provided to college athletics by the advent of TV cable advertising money and revenue from sneaker and jersey sales.Cameos by three POTUS and a host of other celebrities Under a Basketball Moon is a hilarious Alice in Wonderland influenced Forrest Gump-like tale whose ending may have implications on the real world of college sports.Male bonding- the masculine principle of one-upmanship women always getting their man and the intersection of amateurism and money are constant themes in Under a Basketball Moon a Charleston novel after all that could be called North of Broad. Heavily influenced by Thomas Wolfes A MAN IN FULL Phillip Roths THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL and Lewis Carrols ALICE IN WONDERLAND.