Long Gone: 2 - Hardcover

Hemphill, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670437883 ISBN 13: 9780670437887

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1979

Synopsis

A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseballâ the class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s, with a sour old maverick manager, a yearning teenage second baseman, and a black catcher masquerading as a Venezuelan. "A first-rate novel.â â Newsweek. "A sharp, unsentimental portrait of the minor league life...and Hemphill makes it all come to life, believably and memorably.â â Sports Illustrated. "So good, so true, so funny...â â New York Times Book Review.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Hemphill's other books include Leaving Birmingham, The Nashville Sound, Me and the Boy, The Heart of the Game, and The Good Old Boys. He lives in Atlanta.

From Library Journal:

"Both hilariously obscene and touching, Long Gone traces one season in the life of young James Weeks and his adventures while playing for the Graceville Oilers of the Georgia-Florida [baseball] League," said LJ's reviewer of this 1979 novel. Hemphill additionally was praised for "his ability to capture the ambience of lower-class Southern life."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0670437883
• ISBN 13: 9780670437887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 213