The Sweetheart Season

Karen Joy Fowler

first published 1996 Henry Holt & Company, 1996 hardcover

Though most men had returned to their hometowns after World War II, few came back to the tiny village of Magrit, Minnesota. Irini, a nineteen year-old woman, works in the Scientific Kitchen at Margaret Mill, a cereal factory, with most of Magrit's other eligible bachelorettes. Hoping to promote his business and attract some suitors for his staff, the owner of the mill forms a women's baseball team called the Sweetwhe...

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The Sweetheart Season paperback · 1998 · Ballantine Books · 384 pages · 9780345416421
The Sweetheart Season hardcover · 1996 · Henry Holt & Company · 9780765519924
The sweetheart season edition · 1996 · H. Holt · 352 pages
The Sweetheart Season hardcover · 1996 · Ulverscroft Large Print · 471 pages · 9780708958490

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