"This is as good a novel--as well written a novel--centering on Dr. Naismith's game as any I've read." --Ira Berkow "Heroes is the only literate fiction ever written about basketball." --W.P. Kinsella "Heroes is a terrific book. I stayed up over Christmas reading it, and I'm recommending it to friends. Shields has a wonderful human touch.

" --Bob Greene, The San Francisco Chronicle "Heroes is that rare thing, a really good sports novel that does with basketball what Mark Harris or Bernard Malamud did with baseball: make the passion, pull, and mythological grace of the game integral to the characters." --The Chicago Tribune "A generous novel about those two great American preoccupations, lost innocence and sports." --James Marcus, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Like a good point guard, Mr. Shields knows how to control the flow of a game." --Arthur Krystal, The New York Times Book Review.