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The cactus league

Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends...

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Main Author: Nemens, Emily (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Baseball players > Fiction.
Baseball > Training > Arizona > Fiction.
Arizona > Fiction.
Baseball stories.
Sports fiction.
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Summary:Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why--as they hide secrets of their own.
Physical Description:274 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780374117948
0374117942
Author Notes:Emily Nemens is the author of the novel The Cactus League, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and was named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR. She was previously the editor of The Paris Review and the co-editor of The Southern Review . Her work has been published in Esquire , n+1 , The Gettysburg Review , Hobart and elsewhere.

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