Country Hardball
by Steve Weddle
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Pub Date Oct 31 2013 | Archive Date Oct 03 2013
F+W/Adams Media | Gallery Books
Description
After more than a decade spent in and out of juvenile detention, halfway houses, and jail, Roy Alison returns to his rural hometown determined to do better. But what he finds is a working-class community devastated by the economic downturn—a town without anything to hold onto but the past.
Staying with his grandmother, Roy discovers a family history of good intentions and bad choices. Around him, families lose their sons to war, hunting accidents, drugs. And Roy, along with the town, falls into old patterns established generations ago.
With Steve Weddle’s signature “powerful, empathetic” (Sean Chercover, Wall Street Journal bestselling author) prose, this novel-in-stories is a masterful and understated exploration of hardship, truth and hope.
A Note From the Publisher
Please note that this an uncorrected galley file.
Advance Praise
“Country Hardball is a searing portrait of an America most
people would rather forget, where life is cheap, grudges never die, and
dinner is always in the microwave. Steve Weddle’s poignant, powerful
prose brings it to life in all of its desperate passion and hopeless
aggression. Once I started reading, there was no way I could look away.”—Hilary Davidson, author of Evil in All its Disguises
“Steve Weddle’s Country Hardball is a perfect combination of the broken-hearted and the just flat broke. Perfect for anybody who’s ever found themselves at the dead end of a dirt road, and decided, well, hell, there’s nothing to turn around for. Perfect for those who bear their lives like an amputated limb. Here’s hoping Weddle never stops writing, because Country Hardball is just about the perfect book.”—Benjamin Whitmer, author of Pike
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781440570803 |
| PRICE | $24.99 (USD) |
