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    The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
    The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
    The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter

    Written by Craig Lancaster

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From the bestselling author of 600 Hours of Edward comes the story of two small-town characters whose fates are inextricably linked.

    Hugo Hunter, a would-be boxing champion, is thirty-seven, soft around the middle, and broke—his glory days long gone. Raised by his beloved grandmother, he is rough around the edges but has a kind heart. Watching Hugo ringside for nearly twenty years, sportswriter Mark Westerly has struggled to keep a professional distance while he’s served alternately as Hugo’s friend, mentor, and conscience. As Hugo lands on the ropes again, Mark steps in to try to save him and, along the way, gets an unexpected second chance of his own when he meets the gentle and lovely Lainie.

    In this moving tale of human folly and kindness, can two people who’ve lived so long under the weight of their pasts finally find redemption?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 1, 2014
    ISBN9781491541555
    The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
    Author

    Craig Lancaster

    Craig Lancaster is a journalist who has worked at newspapers all over the country, including the San Jose Mercury News, where he served as lead editor for the paper’s coverage of the BALCO steroids scandal. He wrote 600 Hours of Edward—winner of a Montana Book Award honorable mention and a High Plains Book Award—in less than 600 hours during National Novel Writing Month in 2008. His other books include the novel The Summer Son and the short story collection Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. Lancaster lives in Billings, Montana.

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    • 5/5
      "The last time I saw Hugo Hunter in the boxing ring was on a miserable Tuesday that pissed down freezing rain in Billings, Montana." That's how Craig Lancaster begins his latest novel, "The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter." He pretty much tells the whole story right there in the first line, but, as a reader, you know pretty much that he's got you hooked and you are not going to be able to wriggle off the hook till he gets you to the bitter end of this terrific novel.

      Although the backdrop to this story is boxing, it is not primarily a sports story. Instead, it is a story about the nature of friendship and integrity and dreams. It's the story of a reporter (Mark Westerly) and a boxer (Hugo) who captivated the reporter who realizes that he got too close to the story some time between seeing Hugo "captivate the world as a seventeen-year-old and seeing him laid out on the canvas twenty years later." It is the story of the rise and fall of a young boxer who years later is reduced to fighting against nobodies and getting beat to a bloody pulp just to keep fighting. It's also the story of the reporter who stood by him through thick and thin while his own life crumbled about him.

      This is no ordinary sports story because Lancaster captures the atmosphere of the boxing ring and the atmosphere of the oldtime newsroom better than almost anyone ever has. Hugo was the biggest sports star the town had ever seen and there was a time that you couldn't pick up a box of breakfast cereal without him staring back at you. What happened in the twenty years? What reduced Hugo to fighting nobodies on a Tuesday night? The narrator reminisces about how it all was back then.
      As much as on the surface Hugo is the star of the story, the tale is just as much about the narrator, his failed marriage, his son, his life, as it is about Hugo and maybe the takeaway from that is that all stories are in some sense as much about the narrator as about the subject matter.

      The writing is tight and you can feel the narrator's sarcasm like a razor, talking for instance about Schronet having the biggest night of his life beating Hugo and it was something he would tell his kids about "if any woman made the mistake of letting him father some."

      The true mark of a good book that, when you finish it, you start looking up what else the author has crafted. This is that type of good book.
    • 2/5
      This was a kindle unlimited read.