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The
2005 Award
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The Cuban Prospect by Brian Shawver
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Nominated by:
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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Cuban Prospect tells the story of Dennis Birch, a 34 year old failed
major league ball player turned minor league scout whose field of dreams
has always been baseball. At the request of his organisation, Dennis embarks
on a plan to smuggle the hot right-handed pitcher, Ramon Diego Sagasta,
out of Cuba. Sagasta plays for the Cuban National Team but just might be
destined for American super-stardom. No longer a candidate for baseball greatness himself - if he ever was - Dennis accepts the challenge in the hope that promoting the greatness of another will somehow confer a small, manageable portion of it on himself. It soon becomes excrutiatingly clear, though, that Fidel Castro's Cuba is much further from the Florida Keys than the miles marked on a map. A novel of last-ditch hopes, destiny's curve balls, and quiet redemption, The Cuban Prospect gloriously projects a harrowing, yet affirming vision. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Brian Shawver earned an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers program and was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Award. He grew up in Kansas City and currently lives in Dorchester, Massachusetts where he teaches English. This is his first novel. |
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