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TITLE: ONE ON ONE

AUTHOR: TABITHA KING

PUBLISHER: DUTTON; 485 PAGES; $23

% THE BOTTOM LINE: A sad, touching, losers' love affair winds through a solid basketball novel.

Never read a line by Tabitha King? Don't care if you ever read another by her husband Stephen? Fine. But Tabitha's One on One is a surprise, a good, tough, raunchy pop novel about a couple of high school basketball stars. Its realism may be a bit rough-edged for parents, but it's about right for their older children. Sam Styles is a huge, self-apologetic, marvelously coordinated fellow who can't make a wrong move...

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