ASIN: B00K29G4PY
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 324
Winner of the 2016 IPPY Gold Medal for Contemporary Fiction"Swing is richly rewarding...a tight, poignant coming of age novel...[that] will stay with you long after you put this book down."–Sports IllustratedJohn Kostka is three feet tall but larger than life, moving through the world on gloved hands and powerful arms as if on a set of parallel bars. Henry Graham is a ten year-old boy whose father has just left home for good. When the two meet at a downtown bus stop, all they seem to have in common is their love of the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates. But that is enough to begin a life-long friendship that, eventually, enables both men to confront old enemies and heal old wounds.Philip Beard's third and most accomplished novel swings between two narratives the way John Kostka swings through life. The result is a multifaceted meditation on childhood heroes, the beauty of baseball and the power ...
