![]() ![]() ![]() Fact is, “Athletic Shorts” is a deserving book even without the inspiring back story.Ĭrutcher’s strength as a writer always has been based on his ability to mine the material provided to him by his longtime day job. This is one reason why his 1991 story collection “Athletic Shorts” (HarperTeen, 208 pages, $6.99 paper) reigns as the September read of The Spokesman-Review Book Club. 17 – Crutcher became that rarest of successes: the secondary character who ends up sharing the spotlight. With the nine novels that followed – including “Deadline,” from which he will read at Auntie’s Bookstore on Sept. But that 1983 novel, “Running Loose,” proved to be merely the start of what has been an impressive career. It was even adapted into a middling success of a 1985 film that made the Lilac City look beautiful and introduced a somewhat grateful nation to the music video of Madonna singing “Crazy for You.”Īll Crutcher did was write a little novel based on his experiences growing up in Cascade, Idaho. It was his friend Terry Davis who, if life were a Hollywood comedy, was supposed to maintain top billing.ĭavis was first in print, and his “Vision Quest” still ranks in many readers’ minds as the quintessential Spokane novel. ![]() ![]() No one, least of all Chris Crutcher, could have predicted the fame that would come his way as a writer.Ĭrutcher, after all, was the roommate of the writer. ![]()
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