Butterfly winter
Subtitle: a novel
By: W.P. Kinsella
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781586422059
Subjects: Baseball players; Twin brothers; Fiction
Description: At a young age, twin baseball players Julio and Esteban Pimental leave their home in the Caribbean country of Courteguay for the American major leagues. To the chagrin of the team that employs them, Julio, a winning pitcher, will only throw to his brother, a mediocre player. Despite the distance from their homeland, the brothers' lives, monitored by the mysterious Wizard, continue to be shaped by events there, including regular coups and the outlawing of baseball.
Notes: First published in Canada in 2011 by Enfield & Wizenty.

"Two chapters were published in somewhat different form as short stories: "Butterfly winter" in Red wolf, red wolf, HarperCollins, 1987 and "The battery" in The thrill of the grass, Penguin, 1985."--Acknowledgements page.