{"product_id":"2940149868544","title":"The Coach's Wife","description":"\"In his novel THE COACH'S WIFE, William Torgerson has written one of the best books about basketball and coaching I've ever read. He’s also written a love story so complicated and wonderful it will have book clubs talking about it for many years.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Pat Conroy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man without a \"her\" is a man without hope. So believes Coach Zuke who has returned to his hometown of Horseshoe, Indiana to be the head basketball coach. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZuke wants to meet a woman. It’s not long before possibilities emerge: his girlfriend from high school teaches in the room next to him, there is the older sister of one of his players, a girl he knew from college, and a botched matchmaking attempt by his best friend Cheese.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTroubles mount in the form of angry parents and an assistant coach who has plans to steal the head coaching position.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in 1994 to the backdrop of the OJ Simpson murder trial, Kurt Cobain’s death, and Prince Charles’s confession on television to having cheated on Lady Di. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE COACH'S WIFE is a novel about the trials of coaching in a basketball-obsessed state and what happens to one young man desperate to find a wife.","brand":"Cherokee McGhee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109221187824,"sku":"2940149868544","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149868544_p0.jpg?v=1763726168","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149868544","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}