Batting Against Castro Stories Author:Jim Shepard With his first collection of stories--some comic, others compassionate, all of them enthralling--Shepard again displays his prodigious writing talent. Ranging from winter-league baseball in pre-revolutionary Cuba to a postapocalyptic frontier in the American South, from the set of Murnau's classic horror film Nosferatu to more familiar scenes of... more » family life, these 14 stories span an immense fictional landscape with great verve and humanity.« less