Man on Spikes

Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major league game. In a preface to this new edition, Eliot Asinof reveals the long-suffering ballplayer and friend upon which the novel is based.

Info autore

Eliot Asinof is renowned among baseball writers for Eight Men Out, his brilliant reconstruction of the infamous Black Sox scandal in the 1919 World Series. The author of five novels and eight works of nonfiction, he served an apprenticeship in the minor leagues as a prelude to his many works about baseball.

Riassunto

Originally published in 1955, this is a novel about a baseball player who struggles through 16 years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major-league game. In the preface to this edition, Asinof reveals the identity of the friend upon which the novel is based.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Eliot Asinof
• Editore: Southern Illinois University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9780809321902
• ISBN: 978-0-8093-2190-2
• Pagine: 298
• Dimensioni: 143 mm x 217 mm x 22 mm
• Peso: 404 g
• Serie: Writing Baseball (Paperback); Writing Baseball (Paperback); Writing Baseball
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi