The Great American Novel - Softcover

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140076786 ISBN 13: 9780140076783

Verlag: Penguin, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

Humorously portrays a major league baseball team's futile attempts to hold on to its fame during World War II

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Críticas

"Shameless comic extravagance.... Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself." The New York Times "Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick.... An awesome performance." The New Republic "Roth is better than he's ever been before.... The prose is electric." The Atlantic"

Reseña del editor

Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140076786
• ISBN 13: 9780140076783
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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