The SouthpawU of Nebraska Press, 2003 M01 1 - 350 páginas The Southpaw is a story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. From his small-town beginnings to the top of the game, Henry finds out how hard it is to please his coach, his girl, and the sports page?and himself, too?all at once. Written in Henry?s own words, this exuberant, funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series. Although Mark Harris loves and writes tellingly about the pleasures of baseball, his primary subject has always been the human condition and the shifts of mortal men and women as they try to understand and survive what life has dealt them. ø This new Bison Books edition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Southpaw. In his introduction to this edition, Mark Harris discusses the genesis of the novel in his own life experience. Also available in Bison Books editions are The Southpaw, It Looked Like For Ever, and A Ticket for a Seamstitch, the other three volumes in the Henry Wiggen series. |
Contenido
Sección 1 | 13 |
Sección 2 | 27 |
Sección 3 | 48 |
Sección 4 | 58 |
Sección 5 | 65 |
Sección 6 | 75 |
Sección 7 | 91 |
Sección 8 | 97 |
Sección 15 | 150 |
Sección 16 | 163 |
Sección 17 | 168 |
Sección 18 | 176 |
Sección 19 | 190 |
Sección 20 | 213 |
Sección 21 | 226 |
Sección 22 | 242 |
Sección 9 | 105 |
Sección 10 | 116 |
Sección 11 | 123 |
Sección 12 | 131 |
Sección 13 | 136 |
Sección 14 | 143 |
Sección 23 | 273 |
Sección 24 | 280 |
Sección 25 | 302 |
Sección 26 | 314 |
Sección 27 | 338 |
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