Bang the Drum Slowly - Hardcover

Harris, Mark

3.91

1,572 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394416007 ISBN 13: 9780394416007

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1956

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Bang the Drum Slowly by Harris, Mark

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:

Sure, Harris's most acclaimed novel, the second of his Henry Wiggen books, centers around a pair of ballplayers for the fictionally fabled New York Mammoths--the novel's narrator, pitcher Wiggen, and Bruce Pearson, his tag-along catcher and best friend. And sure, on one level, it's the conventional tale of a disparate dugout population cohering over the course of a season and marching ineluctably toward the World Series. But convention, like a 55-foot curveball, ends there and then scoots off in its own unpredictable direction. Harris's story--funny, bittersweet, and affecting--is, in the end, a haunting meditation on life, death, friendship, and loyalty. That it's set against the backdrop of the Major Leagues makes it a baseball novel. That it's a brilliant study of human nature, passionately felt and beautifully crafted, makes it enduring literature. --Jeff Silverman

From the Publisher:

7 1-hour cassettes

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.