Heroes

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A hard-drinking hockey journalist encounters unsavory characters while on assignment in Kansas and realizes his life can't be the same."Ray Robertson is an irrepressible voice, with brass balls and a heart of gold."-Jonathan Evison Peter Bayle-heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, anemic lover-is in Kansas, writing a feature on middle America's newfound love for hockey. There he meets a morphine-injecting reverend, a reviled reporter, and a drug salesman; obsessed by his self-destructive new friends, Bayle abandons the project and returns home to confront a future and a girlfriend he may no longer want. Ray Robertson is the author of seven novels and two collections of award-nominated nonfiction. His novel David was a Women's National Book Association Great Group Reads Selection, 2013.