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false <![CDATA[The Eleventh Man]]> 3076279 3 Driven by the memory of a dead teammate, TSU’s 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war’s various lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine hungry for heroes. Man by man, he is to chronicle the adventures of his teammates for consumption in small-town newspapers across the country, like the one his father edits. Hungry for action, he chafes at the assignment, little dreaming that it will bring him love from an unexpected quarter and put to the test the law of averages, which holds that all but one of his teammates should come through the conflict unscathed. <P></P>A deeply American story, <U>The Eleventh Man</U> is Ivan Doig’s most powerful novel to date. 3107308 13 10 2008 The Eleventh Man total:140|5:11|4:48|3:52|2:18|1:11| 140 450 263 65 4 1 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 13:04:56 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 13:39:38 -0800 2008 The Eleventh Man, by Ivan Doig (finalist for 1979 National Book Award and nominee for 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), was heartbreaking. Mr. Doig tells the (fictional) story of the eleven starting members of the 1941-season undefeated football team of the (fictional) Treasure State...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 11:47:23 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 12:32:14 -0700 2009
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I f...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 08 06:00:05 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 06:00:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 06:02:56 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 08:35:49 -0700 2009 Dancing at the Rascal Fair. His love of the state shines through in his landscapes as always, but with a slow beginning and a really forced ending that's manipulated almost as much as Ben, his hero, is, the bo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 12:03:50 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 12:08:03 -0800 2009
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This one is about 11 members of an undefeated football team in Montana that all enlist in WWII. One of the eleven is a reporter assigned to keep track of the team.

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