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- W4245673854 abstract "Reviewed by: Raiders Night Elizabeth Bush Lipsyte, Robert Raiders Night. HarperTempest, 2006 [240p] Library ed. ISBN 0-06-059947-2$16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-059946-4$15.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 9-12 Senior Matt Rydek is no model of clean play and selfless altruism: he bulks up on steroids, cools off with Vicodin, and swaggers through his narrow milieu with a belief in an athlete's entitlement to passing grades, parental forbearance, and sex on demand. Still, he takes his co-captaincy on the football team seriously, and he is willing to give Chris, a talented transfer sophomore, a chance, despite the newcomer's abrasive arrogance. However, having never acquired the skill of saying No to a teammate, he becomes an unwilling accomplice to a horrifying hazing at which Chris is sodomized with a plastic bat by Ramp, the brutish leader of the defense who sees his own position on the team threatened. Ramp then launches a subtle but effective blackmail campaign to secure the silence of Matt and other upperclass witnesses. Despite the dark edginess of locker-room language and graphic descriptions of violence, there's little tension and even less moral ambiguity to the plot; Ramp's villainy is painted in deepest black, and readers pretty much mark time waiting for Matt to get around to blowing the whistle on him. A couple of subplots involving Matt's adoring mentally handicapped brother, a new prospective girlfriend (with whom he suffers an embarrassing bout of erectile dysfunction), [End Page 22] and Mr. Rydek's tyranny over his son (he's a frustrated athletic might-have-been) round out Matt's concerns but have little new to say. Nonetheless, YAs who like their sports stories raw and gritty should be engrossed by Lipsyte's portrayal of chemically enhanced athletes wrestling with a heinous secret. Copyright © 2006 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois" @default.
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- W4245673854 title "Raiders Night (review)" @default.
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