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Bill Meissner - Spirits in the Grass - 9780268035136 - V9780268035136
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Spirits in the Grass

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Description for Spirits in the Grass Hardcover. Luke Tanner is a thirty-something baseball player helping to build a new baseball field in his beloved hometown of Clearwater, Wisconsin. His chance discovery of a small bone fragment on the field sets in motion a series of events and discoveries that will involve his neighbors, local politicians, and the nearby Native American reservation. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.

When Bill Meissner’s collection of short stories Hitting into the Wind was published in 1994, it was called “a quiet masterpiece of baseball writing” by the Greensboro, North Carolina, News and Record. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer said, “Bill Meissner captures baseball with all its crystalline beauty—the remarkable reverberation of time and space and character.” And The New York Times Book Review said, “Just about every tale here recalls those precious years when a chance to play in the majors was all a boy could ask from life.”

Now, in his first novel, Bill Meissner again uses baseball as a window to ... Read more

Spirits in the Grass rings true with small-town Midwestern values. The characters, including Luke’s independent partner Louise, grapple with their passion and their identities. In this beautiful and haunting novel, baseball serves as a metaphor for life itself, with its losses and defeats, its glories and triumphs.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268035136
SKU
V9780268035136
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
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About Bill Meissner
Bill Meissner has won numerous awards for his writing, including PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction Awards. He is the author of two previous books of fiction, Hitting into the Wind and The Road to Cosmos (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006) and four books of poetry, including American Compass (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004). He is director of Creative Writing at ... Read more

Reviews for Spirits in the Grass
“In Spirits in the Grass [Meissner] has linked personal and racial history and identity, intimate drama and outright mystery, and the awakening of romance and self-awareness. That's a lot to bring together. . . . But while the mayor flails around . . . and Luke learns something about himself, and the town of Clearwater comes to terms with its ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Spirits in the Grass


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