SemiTough Author:Dan Jenkins "The bluest novel since "Portnoy's Complaint," and also, considering its subject-matter, the black-and-bluest. Jenkins picks up an established tradition of the comic American sports story and carries it triumphantly into the end zone, anything-goes-wise. He has a raucous comic sense, the skill of parody, the gift of fast-paced narrative and cart... more »oon characterization. The book is funny." --Wall St. Journal