Country Hardball
Country Hardball by Steve Weddle, published by Gallery Books on October 31, 2013, is a first edition novel comprising 208 pages. The story follows Roy Alison, who returns to his rural hometown after years spent in juvenile detention and jail, seeking to improve his life. However, he finds a community struggling with the effects of economic decline, where the past looms large and hope seems scarce.
In this novel-in-stories, readers will encounter a vivid portrayal of a working-class town grappling with loss and hardship. As Roy stays with his grandmother, he uncovers a family history marked by good intentions and poor choices, reflecting the broader struggles of families affected by war, accidents, and addiction. Country Hardball delves into themes of resilience and the cyclical nature of life in a community facing profound challenges.
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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
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