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Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Lit Hub. A Los Angeles Times Bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

In The Cactus League [Emily Nemens] provides her readers with what amounts to a miniature, self-enclosed world that is funny and poignant and lovingly observed. --Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book Review


An explosive, character-driven odyssey through the world of baseball
Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why--as they hide secrets of their own. Humming with the energy of a ballpark before the first pitch, Emily Nemens's The Cactus League unravels the tightly connected web of people behind a seemingly linear game. Narrated by a sportscaster, Goodyear's story is interspersed with tales of Michael Taylor, a batting coach trying to stay relevant; Tamara Rowland, a resourceful spring-training paramour, looking for one last catch; Herb Allison, a legendary sports agent grappling with his decline; and a plethora of other richly drawn characters, all striving to be seen as the season approaches. It's a journey that, like the Arizona desert, brims with both possibility and destruction. Anchored by an expert knowledge of baseball's inner workings, Emily Nemens's The Cactus League is a propulsive and deeply human debut that captures a strange desert world that is both exciting and unforgiving, where the most crucial games are the ones played off the field.

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  • Title The Cactus League
  • Author Emily Nemens
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN 9780374117948 / 0374117942
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 14.22 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Baseball players, Baseball stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019037899
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2019, Page 33
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/2019, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2020, Page 80
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/11/2019, Page 0

About the author

Emily Nemens is the author of the novel The Cactus League, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and was named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR. She was previously the editor of The Paris Review and the co-editor of The Southern Review. Her work has been published in Esquire, n+1, The Gettysburg Review, Hobart and elsewhere.
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