{"product_id":"9781609803711","title":"The House of Moses All-Stars: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Moses All-Stars\u003c\/i\u003e is also a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man struggling to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals. Charley Rosen gives us basketball as a metaphor for life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAaron Steiner, the protagonist of \u003ci\u003eThe House of Moses All-Stars\u003c\/i\u003e, is a man very close to the edge. The former college basketball star has watched his dreams of being a successful player fall apart, his marriage disintegrate, and his baby die. In desperation he accepts his friend’s offer to join a Jewish professional basketball team—The House of Moses All-Stars—which is traveling on a cross-country tour in a renovated hearse. Aaron’s teammates—a Communist, a Zionist, a former bank robber, and a red-headed Irishman who passes for a Jew—are, like Aaron, trying to escape their own troubled pasts. As the members of this motley crew travel west to California through an anti-Semitic land that disdains and rebuffs them, they discover a nation grappling with social and economic collapse and fear of foreigners, in conflict with its own democratic ideals of tolerance and opportunity. Told with a rueful eye, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Moses All-Stars\u003c\/i\u003e looks critically and lovingly at what it means to be an outsider in America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055174566128,"sku":"9781609803711","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609803711_p0.jpg?v=1763842257","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609803711","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}