Swing Philip Beard s Swing is a novel to be savored Sara Gruen New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and Ape House John Kostka is a legless Korean War veteran three feet tall but larger
Philip Beard s Swing is a novel to be savored Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and Ape House John Kostka is a legless Korean War veteran three feet tall but larger than life moving through the world on gloved hands and powerful arms as if on a set of parallel bars Henry Graham is a ten year old boy whose father has just left h Philip Beard s Swing is a novel to be savored Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and Ape House John Kostka is a legless Korean War veteran three feet tall but larger than life moving through the world on gloved hands and powerful arms as if on a set of parallel bars Henry Graham is a ten year old boy whose father has just left home for good When the two meet in 1971 at a downtown Pittsburgh bus stop, all they seem to have in common is their love of baseball But that is enough to begin a life long friendship that, eventually, enables both men to confront old enemies and heal old wounds Philip Beard s third and most accomplished novel swings between two narratives the way John Kostka swings through life The result is a multifaceted meditation on childhood heroes, the beauty of baseball and the power of love to heal a family in crisis SWING is at once heartbreaking, uplifting and emotionally resonant In a word, it s beautiful Pittsburgh Magazine It wouldn t be fair or accurate to call SWING a sports book It s too rare for that The Sporting News SWING is richly rewardinga tight, poignant coming of age novel that will stay with you long after you put this book down Sports Illustrated Every character the absent father, the troubled sister, the mysterious wonder that is John Kostka feels alive due to Beard s skillfully simple prose and dialogue With SWING, Beard has hit it out of the park Foreword Reviews just about perfect The Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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Philip Beard is a recovering attorney and award winning author of Dear Zoe, which was a Book Sense Pick, a Borders Original Voices selection, and was named by the American Library Association s Booklist as one of its Ten Best First Novels of the year It has enjoyed a second life being taught in high school classrooms across the country and is currently being developed as a feature film His latest novel, Swing, centered around an unlikely friendship between a 10 year old boy and a legless Korean War veteran, recently received the 2016 IPPY Gold Medal for Contemporary Fiction Praise for Swing Philip Beard s SWING is a novel to be savored Sara Gruen, New York Times Bestselling author of Water for Elephants at once heartbreaking, uplifting and emotionally resonant In a word, it s beautiful Pittsburgh Magazine SWING is richly rewardinga tight, poignant coming of age novel that will stay with you long after you put this book down Sports Illustrated It wouldn t be fair or accurate to call SWING a sports book It s too rare for that The Sporting News Every character the absent father, the troubled sister, the mysterious wonder that is John Kostka feels alive due to Beard s skillfully simple prose and dialogue With SWING, Beard has hit it out of the park Foreword Reviews just about perfect The Pittsburgh Post GazettePraise for Dear Zoe, Like The Lovely Bones, it is a piercing look at how a family recovers from a devastating loss Everything about this moving, powerful debut rings true Booklist starred review Dear Zoe is an almost flawless novel of self discovery and redemption It is the sort of book that a generation can call theirs, a book that captures the trials of adolescence and the aching numbness of America in the aftermath of 9 11 The Press of Atlantic City The whole novel rings with truth By the end of it, we re meditating on the ideas of loss and redemption, the ways in which personal tragedies get absorbed into larger ones, but neverobliterated, never forgotten The Buffalo News