A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseball—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.”—Newsweek. "A sharp, unsentimental portrait of the minor league life...and Hemphill makes it all come to life, believably and memorably.”—Sports Illustrated. "So good, so true, so funny...”—New York Times Book Review.
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"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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A first-rate novel. (Newsweek )
“A sharp, unsentimental portrait of the minor league life...and Hemphill makes it all come to life, believably and memorably.” (Sports Illustrated )
“So good, so true, so funny.” (New York Times Book Review ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
“A sharp, unsentimental portrait of the minor league life...and Hemphill makes it all come to life, believably and memorably.” (Sports Illustrated )
“So good, so true, so funny.” (New York Times Book Review ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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