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"In 1968, Jack Duncan is a high school baseball player. Now a senior, he has big dreams for life and baseball after high school. He is eager to leave his small town behind. Times are also hard for he and his mother financially.
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Coach never yelled. He just stared at that empty space above a boy’s head as if he were wondering what kind of torture would produce one ounce of common sense in the teenager’s brain. It’s one thing to be poor. It’s another thing to be" Read more of this review » |
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"I was drawn into this story immediately by the snappy prose and wonderful imagery. Combine that with my fascination for history, love for baseball, and interest in eras of immense change such as Cesar Chavez and his fight to establish a labor union f"
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“She lifted her face to his, and he thought there was something new in the feeling of her lips against his, a new hope or a different kind of fear.”
― Once Night Falls
― Once Night Falls
“Time wore all of them down, administered harsh lessons in humility to even the finest physical specimens.”
― Once Night Falls
― Once Night Falls
“It’s like that John Steinbeck quote about how Americans never think of themselves as poor, but “as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” Everybody thinks they’re just one promotion or one lottery ticket away from having to pay the Estate Tax. They forget that the lottery itself is a tax on hopelessness and dreams.”
― Dad
― Dad
“Jimmy passes the threshold examinations with ease. For Bettina, the sky is falling. For Matthew, it’s the unforgiving way of the unkind world.”
― Truth Is in the House
― Truth Is in the House
“Still, boot camp methods often seem extreme, a platform for drill instructor sadism. The unrelenting prohibition against microscopic deviations seems punitive. The non-stop screaming gets old. The demeaning methods take advantage of malleable seventeen- and eighteen-year-old kids, who are ill-equipped to resist. And while even the most naïve didn’t expect boot camp to be a holiday excursion in the Caribbean, a lack of basic human decency that makes recruits feel small or worthless prevails, an excessiveness that seems to serve no purpose other than an ostentatious showcase of domination.”
― Truth Is in the House
― Truth Is in the House
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