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White Heat is about life and sports -- in that order. The novel, set in the '50s, puts a microscope on the social pressures of the era in a rich plot that just happens to involve the American Pastime.This is a probing examination of the pressures adults bring to bear on a young man in a sports-minded American town. But life, not sport, is the game -- and the racial prejudice that permeated the South is central to the book.Randy Joe Keegan, a gifted teenage pitcher, goes against the grain when he pitches for an otherwise all black team in the South. His humanity tells him people are people, but the message he gets from most of the whites he knows is that his black teammates are less. He also discovers that racism is not confined to the white community alone.The book's characters, black and white, are memorable -- often heroic, frequently flawed. Youth and adult readers, male and female, whether baseball fans or not, will find common ground and a reason to revel in the author's presentation of the most poetic of America's games.
| ISBN-13 | 9781930899070 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1930899076 |
| List Price | $14.95 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 340 pages |
| Publisher | Brazos Currents Worldwide |
| Published On | 2001-06-01 |
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