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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.
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.
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"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
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"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
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0374515840
- ISBN 13 9780374515843
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages382
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This paperback reprint of the 1973 novel has a bright yellow cover with red & blue lettering over a star-flying white baseball; some fading on the spine whitens the letters; unread, so no creases in spine, but some foxing on the top & side of the page block, o/w quite presentable. "Roth has here absorbed and then re-created, in his own terms, the beauty and the contradictions of the American spirit, its vitality as well as its malaise. Johnny Appleseed & Lizzie Borden. Who's on first & the shootout at the O.K. Corral. He defines, explores, mocks, caresses, caricatures, laughs at and laughs with his subject, which is both baseball and the American experience."---Lawrence Ritter. Seller Inventory # RUB445
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