Book
Fighting in the shade / by Sterling Watson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781936070985 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1936070987 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 320 p. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Akashic Books, c2011.
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | In 1964, seventeen-year-old Billy Dyer is a newcomer to Oleander, a Gulf Coast Florida town whose old guard define football as the ancient Spartans did their agoge. It is a mode of brutal tutelage that forges the hearts and minds of the town's elite youth for a future of power. Billy's parents are recently divorced and he lives in a bad neighborhood with his secretive, alcoholic father. Billy discovers in the course of the story that his attorney father has been forced by blackmail to serve Blake Rainey, the town's most powerful and wealthy citizen, in a clandestine land-acquisition scheme that will raze the town's black section. |
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| Subject: | Teenage boys > Florida > Fiction. Football > Florida > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Coming-of-age fiction. |
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