COLUMBUS SLAUGHTERS BRAVES.
por Friedman, Mark
- Usado
- first
- Condição
- Fine (as new) in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- Livreiro
-
Ione, California, United States
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Sobre este item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 2001.. First edition -. Fine (as new) in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's first novel, the story of the rifts in the relationship between two brothers, one an ordinary man, and the other a star baseball player for the Braves.
Sinopse
Joe Columbus is an ordinary man: schoolteacher, husband, father-to-be. His younger brother, CJ, however, is anything but ordinary: the Chicago Cubs' star third baseman, a baseball hero, destined for greatness. In a voice both humorous and plaintive, Joe tells of his brother's remarkable ascent from the sandlots of their southern California childhood to the ivy-walled shrine of Wrigley Field, in an effort to explain not only CJ's apparently charmed life but also his own missteps and failures -- his collapsing marriage, his envy and cowardice, and a rift between brothers that is healed only by tragedy. Mark Friedman's first novel is the heartbreaking tale of two brothers whose lives lead to vastly different fates. A richly imagined story that explores both the grand and enduring allure of our national pasttime and the complications of our lives -- our longings, losses, and regrets -- COLUMBUS SLAUGHTERS BRAVES is for anyone who has had a hero or wanted to be one. Like W. P. Kinsella's SHOELESS JOE and Richard Ford's THE SPORTSWRITER, this is a compassionate but honest novel that introduces readers to a gifted and extraordinarily perceptive writer.
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- Livreiro
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(US)
- Estoque do vendedor nº
- 28441
- Título
- COLUMBUS SLAUGHTERS BRAVES.
- Autor
- Friedman, Mark
- Formato/Encadernação
- First edition -
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Local de publicação
- Boston:
- Data de publicação
- 2001.
- Palavras-chave
- baseball, major league, brothers, family bonds,
- Catálogos de livreiros
- First book or first novel;
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