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Synopsis
Cyrus Nygerski is nineteen when he meets his first werewolf. Not knowing her secret, he asks her to a 1967 Red Sox vs. White Sox game in Chicago -- a historic game, as it happens, for Red Sox fans like Nygerski, a minor league second baseman himself. But Jose Tartabull's game-winning throw on August 27 is just one of several spectacular events of Nygerski's summer. For it seems that he collides with Cassandra Paine, not once, but twice -- in New York City in April and in Beloit, Wisconsin, the day of the famous game. And each time, he discovers, she's running away from a murder. Cassandra can foresee the future, but she cannot alter the past -- and it is that which freewheels the two into a whirlwind of pulse-heightening suspense, some brilliant baseball, and the dangers of life and dying, in an alternate, nonlinear time that saves Cassandra from her nightmare and hands Nygerski his dream.
About the Author
Henry Garfield lives in Belfast, Maine, where he keeps a small sailboat for explorations of the coastal waters. He is the author of three mystery-suspense novels: Moondog, Room 13, and Tartabull's Throw, and writes a regular column for villagesoup.com, an Internet newspaper in Maine. He is the great-great-grandson of President James A. Garfield, the last U.S. president born in a log cabin.
Table of Contents
ContentsPART ONE: August
- Out Like Ted Williams
- Rhonda
- Cassandra
- Tartabull's Throw -- I
- On the Streets of Chicago
- The Morning After
PART TWO: The Dream Season
- The Kid Brother
- Aunt Polly
- Jake Weed's Story
- The Hole
- A Deer in the Woods
- Full Moon
- New York, New York
- The No-hitter
- The Best Left-handed Second Baseman in Wisconsin
- The Fire
- Home Run for the Money
- Hector Falls
- Nine Days in August
- In Rhonda's Room
- Last Game in Beloit
- Tartabull's Throw -- II
- The End of the Dream
- The Fall
PART THREE: September
- Mendocino, California, 1995
- Metamorphosis
- Season's End