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    Fighting in the Shade

    By Sterling Watson

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  • This football-themed novel will be published to coincide with the NFL pre-season in the summer of 2011.
  • Sterling Watson is an established and authoritative literary voice in the St. Pete/Tampa area of Florida.
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    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAkashic Books
    Release dateJul 19, 2011
    ISBN9781617750649
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    Fighting in the Shade
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    Sterling Watson

    Sterling Watson is the author of eight novels, including Deadly Sweet, Sweet Dream Baby, Fighting in the Shade, and Suitcase City. Watson’s short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner, the Georgia Review, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Southern Review. He was director of the creative writing program at Eckerd College for twenty years and now teaches in the Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College in Boston. Of his sixth novel, Suitcase City, Tom Franklin said, “If this taut literary crime novel doesn’t center Sterling Watson on the map, we should change maps.” Watson lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Committee is his latest novel.

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