{"product_id":"the-big-game-is-every-night-paperback","title":"The Big Game Is Every Night - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Maynor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTold in the keen, honest voice of a young man growing up on the rural South Carolina coast, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Game Is Every Night \u003c\/i\u003egrapples with masculinity, race, and family in contemporary blue-collar America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eGrady Hayes's whole life revolves around football. When he breaks his leg starting a game against a rival high school, his life comes unglued. As he recovers, Grady grows bored and angry. He no longer relates to his mom, his cousin, or the girl he's been talking to, and loses interest in catfishing and eating family suppers on the weekends. When Grady tries to return to the team, his spot has been filled, and there are rumors flying about why Coach made Grady a starting running-back in the first place.\u003cbr\u003eFrustrated and alone, Grady falls in with Hambone, a brooding older classmate, who takes him deep into the swamps to hunt raccoons and experiment with drugs. After an ugly confrontation with another player in the locker room, his relationship with Hambone turns dark and violent. Out of options, Grady's mom calls in his estranged father to set him straight, and Grady realizes that his dad isn't the man he remembers.\u003cbr\u003eIn his debut novel, Robert Maynor delivers a literary Lowcountry \u003ci\u003eFriday Night Lights\u003c\/i\u003e that shines a harsh light on the ways American men are steeped in violence, and how hard it can be to shake loose the toxic norms that unchecked can keep us all so far apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Maynor\u003c\/b\u003e is from the Lowcountry of South Carolina. He lives and writes in a patched-up fish camp on the bank of the Edisto River, the longest free-flowing blackwater river in North America. His fiction explores the spectrum of complexities and contradictions in the contemporary American South. His short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBlood Orange Review, BULL, the Carolina Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCRAFT\u003c\/i\u003e, among other outlets. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he is the past recipient of the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the Coker Fellowship in Fiction from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. \u003ci\u003eThe Big Game Is Every Night\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel. He lives in Edisto, SC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764820738336,"sku":"9798885740159","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/59d580dbd8223ac184b2f5e57c391fa2.webp?v=1780255662","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-big-game-is-every-night-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}