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The Dixie association

by Donald Hays

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Meet the Arkansas Reds, the oddest, craziest, wildest bunch of sluggers ever to step out of a dugout. An ex-con first baseman named Hog chronicles a season with the Reds as they travel from one seedy southern ballpark to another--always one step ahead of the small-town sheriffs and right-wing evangelists who think the Reds are an insult to "America's game".

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Donald Hays teaches creative writing at the University of Arkansas.

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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (Finalist – 1985)

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Important places: USA; Arkansas, USA
First words: I was in my cell packing my shit in a cardboard box.

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Genres: Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS: 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
LCC: PS3558 .A865 .D5 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
BISAC: FIC FICTION General

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 3
ASINs: 1

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Published: 1984
Genres: Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS: 813.54
LCC: PS3558 .A865 .D5

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