Critical Essay by Donald B. Swope
Peter Gent's first novel ["North Dallas Forty"] proves that football players are capable of talented literary works without the assistance of a ...
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Critical Essay by Pete Axthelm
[Peter Gent] has written a big, powerful, chaotic novel about life in pro football and in Texas. Rich in sex and drugs, violence and satiric humor, "North Dallas...
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Critical Essay by Dick Schaap
Many novelists write out of pain, but very few of them can pinpoint the pain the way Peter Gent can. It is in his lower back. It has been there since 1967, when a lineba...
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Critical Essay by William Feaver
American football is hell, the pressures impossible to resist, the story goes. Peter Gent, who was one of the Dallas Cowboys for five years, writes from experience an...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
[Gent] obviously knows what he's talking about in [Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot, a] first-person portrait of Texas football hero Mabry Jenkins, a 30-year-old de...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
[In Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot] Gent unleashes black humor upon the world of pro football the way Wambaugh does upon the demesne of metropolitan cops. Unfortunate...
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Critical Essay by R. A. Higgins
Peter Gent, former offensive end for the Dallas Cowboys and author of North Dallas Forty, has written another novel about professional football [Texas Celebrity Turkey...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
[The film] North Dallas Forty is based on Peter Gent's autobiographical novel, which he adapted for the screen with the help of Ted Kotcheff, the director, and Fra...
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Critical Essay by Donald B. Swope
