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Brittle Innings
Published 1994 by Bantam Books · 502 pages
Hugo · 1995
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Michael Bishop on these ballots
3 award entries · 3 books · 1 wins · 1976–1995
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Synopsis
During World War II, seventeen-year-old Danny Boles joins a minor-league baseball team in rural Georgia. His teammate Jumbo Clerval is Frankenstein's monster, still alive after more than a century.
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