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    Pinned
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    Audiobook6 hours

    Pinned

    Written by Alfred C. Martino

    Narrated by Mark Shanahan

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    Pinned follows Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane, two high school seniors, as they embark on the most important winter of their lives in a quest for the New Jersey state high school wrestling championship. Ivan Korske is the pride of Lennings, a rural town tucked away in the farmlands of western Jersey, and the odds-on favorite to be crowned state champion in the 129-pound weight class.


    For Ivan, the stakes are impossibly high. A state championship fulfills a promise he made to his mother before she passed away nine months earlier and will, perhaps, stem his father's continued withdrawal from life. But mostly, Ivan dreams of getting a scholarship to a college far from his dreary hometown. To him, anything short of the title is failure.


    In Short Hills, a wealthy town on the other side of the state, Bobby Zane protects his younger brother Christopher from the fallout of their parents' impending divorce, while searching for comfort from Carmelina Carrillo, a girl from a depressed part of Newark. Despite the distractions from the intense pressures of adolescent love and the family's breakup, Bobby realizes his quest for the coveted 129-pound state title may be his only hope for salvation.


    Pinned chronicles Ivan and Bobby's season-long efforts toward overcoming forces within and beyond their control toward a title that only one of them can capture.


    Alfred C. Martino is the author of three highly-acclaimed young adult novels, "Perfected By Girls, "Over The End Line," and the Jr. Library Guild Selection and 'Best Books For Young Adults' nominee, "Pinned." Martino was born and raised in Short Hills, NJ, and graduated from Millburn High School, where he was captain of school’s 1982 wrestling team. He is a graduate of Duke University and The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Jersey City.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateMay 11, 2023
    ISBN9781593163228
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    Alfred C. Martino

    Alfred C. Martino is the author of the award-winning novels: Perfected By Girls, Over The End Line, and Pinned; the stage play, Waiting For A Friend; and the short stories, "Quiet Desperation," "The Date," "A Day At The Beach," "Where Am I?" "Breathing In Rio," "A Cowboy's Way," "Mother, Interrupter," "The Boy And Girl: A Parable," "Grad School Daydreams," and "I Have Never Been Murdered." Alfred is also lyricist of the goth metal song, "Curse At The Sky."Alfred regularly makes presentations at public libraries and high/middle schools, in person or by Skype, to discuss his novels and short stories, as well as, his process for creating memorable characters and compelling storylines.A proud graduate of Duke University and The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, Alfred is a native of Short Hills, NJ. He is a longtime resident of Jersey City, NJ, where he is doggie dad to a beautiful Shepherd rescue, Gracie.

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    • 5/5
      Although I no-longer wrestle, this novel was a great display of how one must desire to be a champion. Martino is clearly an expert on the subject of high school sports, particularly wrestling, because he was able to show this through his knowledge of the many wrestling moves and the conditioning necessary to succeed in the sport. I am personally a fan of most sports books, but this is up there with some of the best I have ever read.
    • 4/5
      This is the story of two high school senior wrestlers, each with his own story and each determined to win the state championships. The boys do not know each other, but through the author's use of alternating chapters, readers learn how their stories are actually quite similar.Bobby is from an upper middle class family and his parents' marriage is falling apart. Ivan's mother died less than one year ago and his father has been very distant since then. Both boys struggle with these familial relationships and with romantic relationships.In order to be successful wrestlers, they do horrible things to their bodies. The author is a former high school and collegiate wrestler and his experiences lend a great deal of credibility to the novel. The book is set in New Jersey. There are a few cultural references to class differences, but not many. The plot is sometimes slow because the protagonist switches between Bobby and Ivan in every chapter. Mature topics include sex and references to bodily functions related to "cutting weight."Highly recommended for middle school and high school libraries.
    • 4/5
      Takes you inside the world of high school wrestling.