From the award-winning author of Paradise Boys, Scotch and Oranges,
Ghost Dancer, and End of the Road, comes the startling, visionary
The Oakland Quartet. Set in Oakland, a working-class American-Irish
neighborhood of steel mills and saloons, the novel, set in 1958,
chronicles four teenaged baseball players -- Stash and Nig, Mongol
and Whitey, the slickest-fielding infield the city had ever seen --
who, on a hot, sulfurous night, commit an unspeakable crime -- and
must live with its consequences. Supported by a stellar cast of
barkeeps, city councilmen, neighborhood enforcers, and Catholic
priests -- as well as such historic figures as Mayor David
Lawrence, baseball Hall of Famer Pie Traynor, and many more -- the
Oakland Quartet make a decision that will ultimately ruin their
lives. Narrated by Beef, their former teammate and catcher, The
Oakland Quartet closely examines these small, stunted lives --
while their priest, Father David Reddy, searches to save those who
have who have lost their way.
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