Bang the Drum Slowly

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  • Author : Mark Harris
  • Binding : Paperback
  • EAN : 9780803272217
  • Edition : Reprint
  • ISBN : 0803272219
  • Label : University of Nebraska Press
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : University of Nebraska Press
  • Number Of Pages : 243
  • Package Dimensions : 0.59 inches (Height) x 8.02 inches (Length) x 0.63 pounds (Weight) x 5.34 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 1984-01-01
  • Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
  • SKU : 1166022283
  • Studio : University of Nebraska Press

Sure, Harris's most acclaimed novel, the second of his Henry Wiggen books, centers around a pair of ballplayers for the fictionally fabled New York Mammoths--the novel's narrator, pitcher Wiggen, and Bruce Pearson, his tag-along catcher and best friend. And sure, on one level, it's the conventional tale of a disparate dugout population cohering over the course of a season and marching ineluctably toward the World Series. But convention, like a 55-foot curveball, ends there and then scoots off in its own unpredictable direction. Harris's story--funny, bittersweet, and affecting--is, in the end, a haunting meditation on life, death, friendship, and loyalty. That it's set against the backdrop of the Major Leagues makes it a baseball novel. That it's a brilliant study of human nature, passionately felt and beautifully crafted, makes it enduring literature. --Jeff Silverman

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