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One on One is a 1993 fiction novel by author Tabitha King, set in the fictitious New England town of Nodd's Ridge. The book was published by Dutton Adult. Plot synopsis. One on One follows Sam and Deanie, two high school students that are more different than they are alike.
- March 1, 1993
- Tabitha King
- Dutton Adult
- Novel
1 gen 1993 · A pivotal coming of age novel about the way relationships in a teen's life can be life changing -- for better & for worse. The characters are strong & significantly well developed.
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King's novel, One on One, published in 1984, revolves around a high school romance between the town's hero and star athlete, Sam Reuben, and the town pariah. King wrote The Book of Reuben,...
- Tabitha King
- Penguin Publishing Group, 1993
- 0451179811, 9780451179814
- One on One
1 mar 1993 · On the periphery of the high-school action, but posing the most sinister threat, is Deanie's mother's abusive boyfriend. The overlong narrative loses steam as King (married to novelist Stephen) resolves each conflict separately, diminishing the impact of the grand finale.
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- Tabitha King
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is the fifth novel published by Tabitha King, and the fourth to take place in the town of Nodd's Ridge, Maine.
The book was released in 1993.
High school senior and basketball star Samuel Styles is known to his friends and teammates as "Slammer", "Sambot", "Samgod", or simply "god" due to his physical size and athletic prowess. Over the past four years, he has led the boys basketball team at Greenspark Academy to the state title numerous times, while Greenspark's girls' team – led by misfit Deanie Gauthier – always lingers just shy of victory. In his final year at Greenspark, however, Sam announces that this will be the year that both basketball teams, boys and girls, bring home a trophy.
To this end, Sam makes a tenuous effort to befriend the girls' basketball star, Deanie "the Mutant" Gauthier. Despite her abilities as an athlete, Deanie is a social outcast even amongst her fellow players. She is known for her reckless behaviour on the court, her distinctive unfeminine look (she shaves her head, sports multiple tattoos, and wears a trademark series of chains that connect her numerous earrings to her nose-ring), her promiscuity, and her drug use. Sam is repelled by both Deanie's belligerent, off-putting attitude and her reputation, especially since Sam is soon branded with the same reputation as their teammates, coaches, and school officials begin to believe the two are dating.
Sam quickly learns that Deanie comes from an abusive home where her alcoholic, drug-addicted, passive mother allows Deanie's likewise alcoholic live-in boyfriend Tony to molest and batter the girl. Due to neglect, Deanie must work part-time jobs and often steal in order to keep herself fed and clothed. Although he is concerned for Deanie's well-being as a human being, Sam is nervous about getting involved in such a volatile situation with a girl who rebuffs his every offer to help her. Instead he tries to help Deanie in secret by offering her rides to school in bad weather, giving her cast-off clothes, feeding her from his own lunch pail, and even going so far as to partially renovate an abandoned mill to give Deanie a safe, warm place to practice basketball. He also pressures her to give up drugs and cigarettes in order to stay eligible for basketball. While Deanie dismisses all Sam's efforts as nagging, she begins following his advice in private. Sam believes that Deanie is still living her usual wild lifestyle and frequently gives up on her in disgust, only to learn through the high school grapevine that Deanie is, in fact, cleaning up her act.
The boys' and girls' teams begin to work together on the practice court, where the girls must toughen up in order to defeat the harder-playing boys. The boys' coach objects to the new arrangement, claiming that his team will get soft through the easy effort of playing against the girls, while the girls' coach believes this advantage may be what her team needs to win the state championship. Both coaches, as well as the high school principal, realize that the relationship between Sam and Deanie is at the root of the change, but only Sam is warned away from Deanie, leading Sam to believe that those in charge have given up on Deanie as a wasted effort. This makes Sam even more protective of Deanie, and the two become lovers.
Deanie's mother's boyfriend Tony, too, becomes aware of Deanie's relationship with Sam and reacts by beating her violently, ending with Deanie having her own jewellery smashed into her face. Wounded, she flees to the safety of the renovated mill, where Sam later finds her when he becomes concerned that she might lose her basketball eligibility by missing school. Sam takes Deanie to the hospital, where her jewellery must be surgically removed from her face. The hypocrisy of the school officials and law enforcement, who only move in to protect Deanie after it is too late, galls Sam, although he realises that he, too, bears the blame for not reporting suspected abuse.
Deanie refuses to press criminal charges against her stepfather, who goes free. During her recovery, she moves in with Sam and his family, where she finds herself confused and often angry at their loving, functional household compared to her own life of abuse. Both she and Sam are frustrated that Deanie's facial lacerations mean that she will be unable to complete her basketball season, until Deanie learns of a new design of protective mask that may let her compete. Sam redirects all the earnings from his after-school job to purchasing the mask for Deanie, and both students lead their respective teams through the finals to win the state championship.
When Sam requests a puppy for Christmas, he plans to name the puppy Cujo.
Greenspark's opponent in the basketball finales is Castle Rock. They also play against the Derry high school. Greenspark wins against both teams.
One on One (novel) Book descriptions Sam Styles wants the girl's high school basketball team to win a state championship more than he wants the boys team to win a fourth straight championship.
About One on One. They call it March Madness for a reason: Anything can happen on the way to a national championship. Eight years after graduation, Annie Radford is not happy to be back at her alma mater in her old job with the Ardwyn Tigers’ basketball team.
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