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Broken Field (2018) is an American author Jeff Hull's sports fiction novel that is told from the perspective of a high school girl and a football coach. It reveals the tensions that tear at the fabric of a small town when a high school hazing incident escalates and threatens a championship season.
Set on the high prairies of Montana, in small towns scattered across vast landscapes, the distances in Broken Field are both insurmountable and deeply internalized. Life is dusty and hard, and men are judged by their labor. Women have to be tougher yet. That's what sixteen-year-old Josie Frehse learns as she struggles to meet the expectations of her community while fumbling with her own desires. Tom Warner coaches the Dumont Wolfpack, an eight-man football team, typical for such small towns. Warner is stumbling through life, numbed by the death of his own young son and the dissolution of his marriage. But he's jolted into taking sides when his star players are accused of a hazing incident that happened right under his nose.
The scandal divides and ignites the town and in Broken Field, Jeff Hull brilliantly gives breadth and depth to both sides of this shattered community, where the roots of bullying reach deep, secrets and buried, and in a school obsessed with the winning, everyone loses.
"Rural America, quite vividly, plays out its enthusiasms--sports and love affairs--in this dead-on-the-money drama. Jeff Hull has given us a winner."--William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky
About the Author
Jeff Hull is the author of the novel Pale Morning Done and the essay collection Streams of Consciousness. Broken Field is his second novel. It was named a Finalist for the WWA 2019 Awards for Best Western Contemporary Novel. Hull's articles have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic, Fortune, FastCompany, Outside, Men's Journal, and many other national magazines. He has worked as a fishing guide in Montana and Tahiti and as a copywriter at major advertising agencies in New York and San Francisco. He lives in Montana and New York City.
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Author: Jeff Hull
Publisher: Arcade
Publishing Date: October 16, 2018
Edition Language: English
Genre: Native American Literature, Sports Fiction, Small Town and Rural Fiction
ISBN-10: 1628729783
ISBN-13: 978-1628729788
Pages: 360 (Hardcover)
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