Brushback

by K.C. Constantine

Book Overview

The best days of Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, are behind it. The mills are closed, the mines shut down, and the townsfolk while the days away in the local bars and somehow manage to get along. Yet every once in a while something or someone strikes a spark that lifts everyone up and puts Rocksburg back on the map. Decades before, Bobby Blasco went north to pitch for the Boston Red Sox. Known as the Brushback Kid, he set records in every league he played...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892966467
• ISBN13: 9780892966462
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

As good as Richard Price, better than Don DeLello

K. C. Constantine is one of the finest writers that I have read in some time. Constantine's novels are at least as good as the fiction of Richard Price, and they are much better than Don DeLillo's. The Rocksburg novels rival the quality of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin sea novels, and Brushback is one of Constantine's best works. It is a pity that Constantine's novels don't currently share the same popularity. I've read most of Constantine's novels and I haven't been disappointed yet. The dialogue is spectacular. The characters are complex. These works are as subversive as anything written by Seymour Hersh, as good never triumphs, and the powers that be are all corrupt to some degree. If you read one, you will probably read all of them.