7; The Mickey Mantle Novel

Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Herb Snitzer (author photograph). xi, [3], 286, [4] pages. Postage stamp taped to fep. DJ has sticker residue. Peter Golenbock (born July 19, 1946) is noted for his many books about baseball and other sports. Many of his books have been bestsellers. Golenbock initially worked as a lawyer for Prentice Hall, a publishing house. He began his writing career after convincing an editor to let him write a book about the Yankees. The book, Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964, was chosen by Joe Torre as one of the best books on baseball, in a 1997 New York Times article. The Bronx Zoo, which Golenbock coauthored with Yankees pitcher Sparky Lyle, was a New York Times bestseller and, in 2003, was chosen as one of Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books Of All Time. Publishers Weekly called Wild, High and Tight: The Life and Death of Billy Martin, about the life of baseball manager Billy Martin, "an extremely thorough and comprehensive biography." The review mentions Golenbock's assertion that Martin was the actual driver the night he died in a drunken car crash. Kirkus Reviews wrote that Cowboys Have Always Been My Heroes: The Definitive Oral History of America's Team "should not be missed," calling it a "brilliantly conceived and executed chronicle." The Washington Post wrote that American Nero: The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump Is the Worst Offender, coauthored with Richard Painter, "serves to remind us, in icy, granular detail, of what has happened to constitutional democracy in three short years, and all that we have absorbed, integrated and somehow moved beyond." Bestselling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Jim Bouton, Joe Pepitone, and many of Mantle's friends, family, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In this fictional portrait, Mickey--now in heaven--realizes that he's carrying a huge weight on his shoulders, as he did throughout his life. He needs to unburden himself of all the horrible things he did and understand for himself why he did them. He wants to make amends to the people he hurt, especially those dear to him; the fans he ignored and alienated; and the public who made him into a hero. Mickey never felt he deserved the adulation, could never live up to it, and tried his damnedest to prove it to everyone. The fact that he was human made the public love him that much more. Through the recounting of his exploits on and off the field, some of them side-splittingly hilarious, some disturbing, and others that will make your head shake in sympathy, Mickey comes clean in this novel in the way he never could in real life. 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel puts you inside the locker room and bedroom with an American Icon every bit as flawed and human as we are.