num_pages: 197
description: With his first collection of stories--some comic, others compassionate, all of them enthralling--Shepard again displays his prodigious writing talent. Ranging from winter-league baseball in pre-revolutionary Cuba to a postapocalyptic frontier in the American South, from the set of Murnau's classic horror film Nosferatu to more familiar scenes of family life, these 14 stories span an immense fictional landscape with great verve and humanity.
language: English
title: Batting Against Castro
titlecomplete: Batting Against Castro
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 71
publisher: Knopf