You Know Me Al
You Know me Al is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quite-anonymous friend Al, Lardner maintains a balance between the funny and the moving, the pathetic and the glorious. Nostalgic in its view of pre-World War I America--a time before the live ball, a time filled with names like Ty Cobb, Charles Comiskey, Walter Johnson, and…
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- ISBN: 978-0-02-022342-9
- EAN: 9780020223429
- Produktnummer: 9587750
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 286 g
- Gewicht: 286
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