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Deuce Pulaski,the father of South Bend Tribune sportswriter Bud Pulaski, instructed his son about the vagaries of the human condition through anecdotes from his own history. Bud has accepted those stories as literally true and uses them as guides through a world often harsh and inscrutable. On the afternoon following Deuce's funeral, Bud discovers a shoebox full of memorabilia that suggest deception in Deuce's narratives and less than heroic intent in the actions of their main protagonists,...