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A former baseball player, who has been dispirited by his past mistakes, finds his life rejuvenated after he reluctantly agrees to run against a radical hippie in the volatile Vermont state elections of 1968
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The characters in Higgins's 22nd book ( The Friends of Eddie Coyle was the first) are as talkative as he is prolific. Baseball star Henry Briggs had retired in the mid-1960s to his farm in Occident, Vt., where, with strings pulled by politico Ed Cobb, he keeps busy as game warden. Briggs is both conscientious and compassionate, occasionally letting poor families bag illegal game for food. Mostly, he suffers the complaints of his wife, Lillian, and keeps up with the taciturn locals, none of whom has secrets from the others. But 1968 is an important election year and Cobb persuades Briggs to challenge Bob Wainwright, the Republican Congressman, for the seat he's held for 28 years. Briggs's decision to run, its reception around Occident and Wainwright's response provide the bulk of the tale, advanced almost entirely via conversation. Its satisfying resolution is less important than the getting there; that Higgins builds a compelling story from such material is proof of his talents. Pitch-perfect dialogue and credible characters (especially Russ Wixton, a sportswriter turned political columnist) who act from complex, generations-old motives give this story a lasting power.
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The time is 1968. Henry Briggs, retired baseball player now working as a game warden in Vermont, is picked by politician Ed Cobb to run for the Democratic seat in a Congressional race. His opponent, Wainwright, is approaching 80 and has been in office for as long as anyone can remember. But various people begin to delve into the past when Russ Wixton, a newspaperman, decides to do features on Briggs and a hometown boy returning in a casket from Vietnam. While early portions of the novel seem laden with digressions and superfluous characters, Higgins, as one might expect, pulls everything together in time for a satisfying ending. Spanning more than 20 years, this cynical, crusty novel will reward serious readers who stay with it. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7/90.
- Robert H. Donahugh, formerly with Youngstown & Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio
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- Publication date1990
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