Whatever Happened to Frankie King
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
Publishing:15th Nov '24
£18.95
This title is due to be published on 15th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A real-life mystery of books and basketball.
Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were comparing Frankie to the greatest college and professional players of all time, and he was recruited as a starting guard at the University of North Carolina. But Frankie dropped out before playing a single game.
This graphic novel follows King’s enigmatic life from its auspicious start in the limelight to his very reclusive existence in New York City, where he authored more than forty novels, including a popular series of cozy cat mysteries written under a woman’s pseudonym. Whatever Happened to Frankie King is the story of a unique and sometimes troubled life as well as a meditation on dreams realized, lost, and abandoned.
ISBN: 9781637790779
Dimensions: 216mm x 152mm x 9mm
Weight: 210g
128 pages