Fighting in the Shade
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    Jul-2011
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    330
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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.

Through the brutal and fiery days of summer practice, Billy fights for a starting spot on the team, the Spartans. He makes the team, but in a horrific hazing scene far from the town, he rebels and in the process badly injures his rival for the flanker position. The events that follow force Billy into exile from football, then later back into the game when powerful men realize that the Spartans cannot win without him.
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    • Jul-2011
    • Akashic Books
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1936070987
    • ISBN13: 9781936070985
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    • Jul-2011
    • Akashic Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1617750646
    • ISBN13: 9781617750649
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    • Jul-2011
    • Akashic Books
    • eBook (Kindle)



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