Pitching to the Corners: My Post-MLB Career Abroad -- Don August, Paperback trending large-scale pattern debossed on a

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A woman's mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed--"the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time" (Kazuo Ishiguro)

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Pitching to the Corners: My Post-MLB Career Abroad -- Don August, Paperback trending large-scale pattern debossed on aMost professional baseball players hang up their spikes for good after their time in the major or minor leagues. Don August chose a different path. In 1989, August was the Milwaukee Brewers Opening Day starting pitcher. The year before, he went 13 7 and finished fourth in the balloting for American League Rookie of the Year. He was the Brewers' Ace and then, suddenly, he wasn't. By 1992, August was a free agent looking for an opportunity that no big