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A prominent amount in the entertainment world who have considered fiction in the last decade, Kevin Morris received extensive literary acclaim along with his storyline collection White Man's Problems, praised by David Carr as "remarkable" and Tom Perrotta as "revelatory". Now Morris cements his place as a vibrant new words in American literature along with his muscular debut book, All Joe Knight. The entire year is 1961. Outside Philadelphia, a soon-to-be daddy incurs a cell phone pole while generating drunk; nine calendar months later his widow dies in a smashed up T-Bird. From the start the orphaned Joe Knight is a blank slate. Taken in with a kindly aunt in a tough-skinned suburb, Joe discovers his family in high school with the Fallcrest baseball team - the kind of team that comes around once in an eternity. White guys, dark guys, speed, level, raw athleticism, every aspect is correctly in sync. All these kids want, all they dream of, is to make it to the Palestra, UPenn's cathedral of university baseball. Fast-forward 30 years. Joe is newly divorced, with one child, and certain he's unfit for love. Ever since selling the advertising company he built from the bottom up for millions, he's acquired time on his hands, and today he wiles it away in remove clubs, the sole place where he can hushed his mind. But he hears from Chris Scully, a ex - Fallcrest teammate who is now district attorney. It appears the Justice Department is sniffing around the deal that acquired Joe rich years ago - a package he trim every member of the baseball team into, aside from Scully. As the facts about Joe's possible transgression are unreeled, he's forced to handle the emptiness inside himself and a top secret that has haunted him for many years.
