Reseña del libro "The Fan (en Inglés)"
Phillips Forest Parsons was a star football player for the Burbank High School, got a scholarship to UCLA where he was a standout receiver while also achieving academic excellence, and upon graduation was drafted by the San Francisco Forty-Niners, where he enjoyed most of his rookie season.He left professional football and went to work full-time for the Parsons Milling Company, a high tech factory owned by his father. After three years of getting strung along with promises of inheriting the company, Phillips began to realize his father was getting his factory manager for peanuts and promises.One day, while running in the hills above his home, someone shot him. He didn't see who, just knew they were determined to kill him, and almost succeeded. This pivotal event in his life forced him into a new path, one that didn't include working for his father.Phillips was a big man, good looking, intelligent and highly educated. Women loved him, NFL fans loved him, life was great, success came with work, but hard work was the norm for him. Now, recovering from nearly becoming a bizarre murder victim, he finds success may not be what he thought. Upon the death of his grandfather, Phillips inherits a number of antiques, including a strange Chinese fan, made of bamboo and cloth. This fan sparks huge changes in his life, a return to an old career, heartbreaks and a painful succession of revelations about who he is.He thought he was a good man, honest, well educated, well-intentioned. Maybe he was... wrong.This is an expanded, second edition, with new material added to the ending.
