All the Stars Came Out That Night

All the Stars Came Out That Night

by Kevin King
Publisher: Plume Books
Reprint, ©2007, ISBN: 9780452287624
Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Current Retail Price: $15.00
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Kevin King’s debut novel, All the Stars Came Out That Night, is a vivid portrait of Depression-era America written in a voice at once humorous and poetic. Set at Boston’s Fenway Park on October 20, 1943, All the Stars Came Out That Night imagines a late-night baseball game bankrolled by Henry Ford, pitting Dizzy Dean’s all-white all-stars against Satchel Paige’s black all-stars. Not a contest waged for money or trophies, the outcome of this game carries with it both the weight of a historic injustice—the barring of African Americans from baseball—and the promise of vindication and redemption.

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