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Pafko at the wall : a novella / Don DeLillo.
LIBRA PS3554.E4425 P34 2001 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeLillo, Don.
- Standardized Title:
- Underworld. Pafko at the wall
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)--Fiction.
- Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team).
- New York Giants (Baseball team)--Fiction.
- New York Giants (Baseball team).
- Polo Grounds (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Polo Grounds (New York, N.Y.).
- Baseball fans.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Baseball teams--Fiction.
- Baseball teams.
- Baseball fans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Baseball stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- DeLillo, Don (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, [2001]
- Summary:
- "There's a long drive. It's gonna be. I believe. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant."
- -- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951
- On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason is razzing Toots Shor in Leo Durocher's box seats; J. Edgar Hoover, basking in Sinatra's celebrity, is about to be told that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb; and Russ Hodges, raw-throated and excitable, announces the game -- the Giants and the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York. DeLillo's transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sportswriting.
- Notes:
- "Originally published as the prologue to Underworld"--T.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 signed by author.
- ISBN:
- 0743230000
- 9780743230001
- OCLC:
- 48013766
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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