The Great American Novel - Philip Roth

Philip Roth

The Great American Novel

Laufzeit ca. 876 Minuten. Sprache: Englisch.
MP3-CD
EAN 9798212383400
Veröffentlicht 2. Juli 2024
Verlag/Hersteller HighBridge Audio
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--a richly imagined novel featuring America's only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers "shameless comic extravagance...Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself"--The New York Times.
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 homeless baseball team the Ruppert Mundys--it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory.
In this ribald, 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.

Portrait

Philip Roth (1933-2018) was one of the most decorated writers in American history, having won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and many more.