“A beautiful blend of sweetness, pain, and truth. Basketball runs through this book like a stream of light, illuminating all it touches.” —Rick Telander, author of Heaven Is a Playground

“A remarkable book, open and honest, full of the joys and the pain of growing up.” —The Sporting News

“Bill Reynolds is one of the best writers around, and this book is the Friday Night Lights of high school basketball.” —Dan Shaughnessy, author of Ever Green

“Simply a classic...every word has the ring of truth. Reminds me of Norman Mclean's Young Men and Fire.” —Greg Donaldson, author of The Ville

“Reynolds uncovers, in a moving and sensitive book, the desperate values of a city whose only dream is basketball glory.” —James Chace, Newsday

“Superbly observed and compassionately rendered, Fall River Dreams reminds us of why sports matter.” —Alexander Wolff, author of Raw Recruits

“Reynolds does a fine job...Fall River Dreams illustrates that sports can provide marvelous highs, but that the joy of achievement can be supplanted by the desperate needs to win-again and again and again.” —The New York Times Book Review