Another Shot

Another Shot is the sequel to Jim Wasowski's novel, One Shot, a book where Mike Markowski leads his high school basketball team to the state finals in basketball crazed Indiana. Set in the 1960's, Another Shot follows Mike and his girlfriend, Connie, to fictional Myakka State University in Florida where he's expected to turn around a struggling college basketball program. But Another Shot is more than a basketball story. It's also a coming of age book that goes deeply into the...
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Another Shot is the sequel to Jim Wasowski's novel, One Shot, a book where Mike Markowski leads his high school basketball team to the state finals in basketball crazed Indiana. Set in the 1960's, Another Shot follows Mike and his girlfriend, Connie, to fictional Myakka State University in Florida where he's expected to turn around a struggling college basketball program. But Another Shot is more than a basketball story. It's also a coming of age book that goes deeply into the culture of the time as the young couple fight through the trials and tribulations of the sexual revolution, get involved in the Women's Rights Movement and find themselves in the middle of protests against the Vietnam War complicated by home sickness and the overall challenges of college life. Will they succeed? Will Mike just become another guy who left home with basketball dreams that he couldn't fulfil? Will Connie succeed in the infancy of the computer industry? Another Shot is a must read for anyone who loves both basketball and wants to be taken back to one of the most interesting eras in our history.