This title comes from one of Americas finest living writers Pete Dexter US National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout". This is a riotous & dazzling comic story of resilience & love for fans of John Irving & Jonathan Franzen. Warren Spooner is born in rural Georgia on the first Sunday of December 1956 after a prolonged & unhappy labour in a makeshift delivery room. His troubled birth is swiftly followed by his fathers untimely death
- & young Spooner is left to get on with growing up without even a memory of his daddys face. Spooner makes it into minor league baseball but an injury to his throwing arm relegates him to the sidelines & dashes his hopes of making it to the big-time. But the young man is nothing if not resilient standing up to tragedy & adversity in his own dark (often extremely dark) ways. Through it all his step-father
- Calmer Ottoson
- stands by determinedly trying to save his step-son yet utterly powerless to do so. From Spooners troubled childhood to his troubled adolescence & violent & troubled adulthood Pete Dexter tells an entirely gripping story of one mans inexhaustible patience tested to the limits as he struggles to rescue a step-son he will never underst&."