Columbus Slaughters Braves - 1st Edition/1st Printing Hardcover - 2001
by Friedman, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Details
- Title Columbus Slaughters Braves - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author Friedman, Mark
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; First Printing
- Condition Used - Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton and Mifflin, New York
- Date 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # 11432
- ISBN 9780618025206 / 0618025200
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.55 x 5.74 x 0.81 in (21.72 x 14.58 x 2.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Baseball players, Baseball stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00033432
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
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.
