Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American CityA moving and evocative portrait of football and life.Publishers WeeklyKent Babb has delivered a literary masterpiece. Lyrically written and deeply reported, Across the River reads like a gripping, cant put it down novel. This is a movie waiting to be made.Lars Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of The Mannings and Chasing the Bear On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on