Nobody Roots for Goliath

Nobody Roots for Goliath is a comic novel about Marvin Walker, a seven foot six inch, nearly illiterate basketball prodigy and Wade, the depressed, neurotic English Professor who befriends him. Can the unlikely bond between these two transcend their differences of age, race and economic expectation? Complications abound as the worlds of academia and athletics collide in this irreverent novel of contemporary college life.