It Looked Like For Ever - Softcover

Harris, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803272448 ISBN 13: 9780803272446

Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

Henry Wiggen, the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths, returns to narrate another novel in his inimitable manner. Fans who loved him in Bang the Drum Slowly, The Southpaw, and A Ticket for a Seamstitch (all Bison Books) will cheer his comeback. Wiggen is now thirty-nine, a fading veteran with a floating fastball, a finicky prostate, and other intimations of mortality. Released from the Mammoths after nineteen years, the twenty-seventh winningest pitcher in baseball history (tied at 247 victories with Joseph J. "Iron Man" McGinnity and John Powell), Wiggen is not ready to hang up his glove. What impels Henry to pitch against Pate, to trek to California and as far as Japan? He still has a few seasons, a few innings left anyway. Is he principled or possessed? You'll have to decide for yourself as author Mark Harris plays out Wiggen's midlife crisis on familiar American turf: the baseball diamond.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Harris (1922-2007) is the author of a famous quartet of baseball novels—including Bang the Drum Slowly—as well as Something about a Soldier, Speed, and The Talemaker. All are available as Bison Books.

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Henry Wiggen, the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths, returns to narrate another novel in his inimitable manner. Wiggen is now thirty-nine, a fading veteran with a floating fastball, a finicky prostate, and other intimations of mortality. Released from the Mammoths after nineteen years, Wiggen is not ready to hang up his glove.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803272448
• ISBN 13: 9780803272446
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
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