Bang the Drum Slowly
Title | Bang the Drum Slowly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780803273382 |
A poignant portrayal of professional ballplayers' lives on and off the field during the sport's golden years in the 1950's.
Bang the Drum Slowly
Title | Bang the Drum Slowly PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Harris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Baseball players |
ISBN |
Fielder's Choice
Title | Fielder's Choice PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Norman |
Publisher | august house |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2006-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780874832044 |
On trial for treason, Andrew Jackson Fielder looks back on his brief career as a major league pitcher, and his experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war
The Art of Fielding
Title | The Art of Fielding PDF eBook |
Author | Chad Harbach |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2011-09-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316192163 |
A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball, praised by the New York Times as "wonderful...a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting." Named one of the year's best books by the New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg, Kansas City Star, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Time Out New York. At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment -- to oneself and to others. "First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom." --Jonathan Franzen
The Southpaw
Title | The Southpaw PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780803273375 |
The Southpaw is a story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. From his small-town beginnings to the top of the game, Henry finds out how hard it is to please his coach, his girl, and the sports page?and himself, too?all at once. Written in Henry?s own words, this exuberant, funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series. Although Mark Harris loves and writes tellingly about the pleasures of baseball, his primary subject has always been the human condition and the shifts of mortal men and women as they try to understand and survive what life has dealt them. ø This new Bison Books edition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Southpaw. In his introduction to this edition, Mark Harris discusses the genesis of the novel in his own life experience. Also available in Bison Books editions are The Southpaw, It Looked Like For Ever, and A Ticket for a Seamstitch, the other three volumes in the Henry Wiggen series.
The Tale Maker
Title | The Tale Maker PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Harris |
Publisher | Dutton Adult |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
"Set in academe, in an unnamed city, The Tale Maker, by Mark Harris, features the careening careers and psyches, lusts and ambitions of two men - one named Rimrose, a brilliant student and teacher and widely respected author who manages to foul up everything until a final victory over his long-time antagonist named Kakapick, a voyeur of life, pitiful and yet able to win out over Rimrose in the absurdly bureaucratic and stratified atmosphere of The University - until, that is, life gets the better of him." "The Tale Maker is Mark Harris, author of the classic Bang the Drum Slowly tetralogy, at the top of his form, writing with a wit and bite and irony that sets him squarely alongside such as Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth and John Irving."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Something about a Soldier
Title | Something about a Soldier PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Harris |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780803272262 |
Private Jacob Epp falls in love with his commanding officer's girl, goes AWOL to be alone with her, and finds himself at odds with the entire United States Army during the Second World War