Country Hardball (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781440570810)

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, to be 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, of making do without much chance of doing better. Around him, families lose their sons to war, hunting accidents, drugs. And Roy, along with the town, falls into old patterns established generations ago.

A novel-in-stories in the tradition of Bonnie Jo Campbell, Donald Ray Pollock, Denis Johnson, and Alan Heathcock, Country Hardball is a powerfully observed and devastatingly understated portrait of the American working class.

"Steve Weddle's Country Hardball is a perfect combination of the brokenhearted and the just flat broke... Here's hoping Weddle never stops writing..." --Benjamin Whitmer, author of Pike

Author: Steve Weddle
ISBN-10: 1440570817
ISBN-13: 9781440570810
Publisher: Gallery Books
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2013
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.57w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/02/2013 pg. 30
Booklist 10/01/2013 pg. 31
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2013 pg. 27