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Knuckleball

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Knuckleball by Roger Groening
What if you could throw the perfect knuckleball? Would you be happy?
This is one of Leonard’s goals as he grows up in the fictional town of Shannon Creek. It is the 1960s. Leonard dreams of the big leagues. He is very fond of Patsy Giesbrecht. He ponders salvation. He worries about failure. He tries to follow the complex rules of both baseball and life. His impetuosity and stubbornness lead to minor misfortune. Misfortune occasionally has a silver lining.

Roger Groening, in his first collection, gives us the peculiar world of Shannon Creek, where winning first place at the country fair flower competition is cause for muted pride, and throwing the perfect knuckleball is a moment replete with grace.

“Roger Groening’s main character, Leonard, is an antihero with Biblical echoes. He is born into a small religious community, suffers doubts, likes an incomprehensible parable, thinks the world could be a better place, and might even believe that the last should be first. These are winding and leisurely tales. They remind us that sometimes a story is just a story.”
David Bergen—author of Leaving Tomorrow

Pages: 191

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Roger Groening

Release: January 05, 2016

Knuckleball

0/5 ( ratings)

Knuckleball by Roger Groening
What if you could throw the perfect knuckleball? Would you be happy?
This is one of Leonard’s goals as he grows up in the fictional town of Shannon Creek. It is the 1960s. Leonard dreams of the big leagues. He is very fond of Patsy Giesbrecht. He ponders salvation. He worries about failure. He tries to follow the complex rules of both baseball and life. His impetuosity and stubbornness lead to minor misfortune. Misfortune occasionally has a silver lining.

Roger Groening, in his first collection, gives us the peculiar world of Shannon Creek, where winning first place at the country fair flower competition is cause for muted pride, and throwing the perfect knuckleball is a moment replete with grace.

“Roger Groening’s main character, Leonard, is an antihero with Biblical echoes. He is born into a small religious community, suffers doubts, likes an incomprehensible parable, thinks the world could be a better place, and might even believe that the last should be first. These are winding and leisurely tales. They remind us that sometimes a story is just a story.”
David Bergen—author of Leaving Tomorrow

Pages: 191

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Roger Groening

Release: January 05, 2016

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