Castro's Curveball
Autor Tim Wendelen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2006
Recently widowed and now retired, Billy Bryan is “coming to the end of many things.” Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant past—and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947 Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as uncertain as the island country’s. Then one fateful night Bryan witnessed a young student radical named Fidel unleash an amazing curveball. So begins Bryan's tug-of-war with destiny.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803259577
ISBN-10: 0803259573
Pagini: 292
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0803259573
Pagini: 292
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Tim Wendel is an award-winning writer whose articles and columns have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today. He teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University and is the author of The New Face of Baseball: The One-Hundred-Year Rise and Triumph of Latinos in America's Favorite Sport. For more information on Tim Wendel, visit his Web site http://www.timwendel.com.
Recenzii
"Tim Wendel's love and impressive knowledge of baseball suffuses every page of this passionate novel of love, loss, and the real freedom that wisdom and time sometimes bring."—Ken Burns, coauthor of Baseball: An Illustrated History
"A Cuba libre mixed with baseball, revolution, and moonlight, wonderfully evocative of a time that was and a pitcher that might have been."—Frank Deford, author of Everybody’s All-American
"In this first novel, well-known sportswriter and radio commentator Wendel explores the legend that Fidel Castro could've been a contender in America's major leagues. . . . Beautifully written, and with a ring of truth to it."—Library Journal
"A superbly crafted meditation on heroism, duty, and the irony derived from recognizing everyone's imperfections but your own."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)