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Columbus Slaughters Braves

Columbus Slaughters Braves

Columbus Slaughters Braves
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Columbus Slaughters Braves

de Friedman, Mark

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ISBN 10
0618025200
ISBN 13
9780618025206
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Honi Warner. [2], 200, [4] pages. Mark Friedman's debut novel is an unflinchingly honest portrait of the relationship between siblings, the heartbreaking tale of two brothers whose lives lead to vastly different fates. The narrator, Joe Columbus, tells the story of his brother CJ's remarkable success as a professional baseball player in an effort to explain not only CJ's apparently charmed life but also his own failures - his envy, his crumbling marriage, his missteps and cowardice. A richly imagined story that explores both the grand and enduring allure of our national pastime and the complications of our lives - our longings, losses, and regrets - COLUMBUS SLAUGHTERS BRAVES is a dark and comic and ultimately redemptive novel. Like W. P. Kinsella's SHOELESS JOE Joe and Michael Shaara's FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, this is a poignant and compassionate work that introduces readers to a gifted and extraordinarily perceptive writer. Derived from a Kirkus review: Echoes of Bang the Drum Slowly, The Natural, and Brian's Song are heard throughout this literate first novel about an athlete dying young: an incisive first novel. The story's narrated by Joe Columbus, the older brother who watches with mingled amazement, subdued pride, and rancorous envy as his sibling CJ becomes a baseball phenom and a beloved public figure. Golden boy CJ-as intelligent, friendly, and generous as he is athletically gifted-rises from sandlot prominence in their southern California neighborhood to dazzling success as the Chicago Cubs' All Star third baseman, even challenging Joe DiMaggio's consecutive game-hitting streak. Friedman forcefully communicates the jealousy even Joe knows is irrational and unfair. There's no doubt that the Cain-and-Abel tension between the brothers engages our attention, or that the emotional closing pages have genuine impact. A good bet to become very, very popular.

Sinopsis

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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Librería
Ground Zero Books US (US)
Inventario del vendedor #
75802
Título
Columbus Slaughters Braves
Autor
Friedman, Mark
Ilustrador
Honi Warner
Formato/Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Estado del libro
Usado - Muy bueno
Estado de la sobrecubierta
Very good
Cantidad disponible
1
Edición
First Printing [Stated]
ISBN 10
0618025200
ISBN 13
9780618025206
Editorial
Houghton Mifflin Company
Lugar de publicación
Boston
Fecha de publicación
2001
Palabras clave
Baseball, First Novel, Joe Columbus, Chicago Cubs, All Star, Third Baseman, Wrigley Field, National Pastime, Heroism

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