Bang the Drum Slowly - Softcover
A new dramatization of one of the greatest baseball stories of all time. A poignant, touching, and often comic tale of a baseball teams friendship and loyalty to a dying teammate. Adapted from the novel by Mark Harris.
A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Ed Begley Jr., John Freeland Jr., Henry Harris, Brent Hinkley, Bruce Nelson, Joshua Rifkind, David Robbins, Marcia Rodd, Elizabeth Ruscio, Enrique Sandino, David Schwimmer, Harry Shearer and Jonathan Silverman.
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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
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- PublisherDell Pub Co
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0440109752
- ISBN 13 9780440109754
- BindingPaperback
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Bang the Drum Slowly
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Dell Pub Co
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ISBN 10: 0440109752
ISBN 13: 9780440109754
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1973. Shelf wear to extremities of cover. Spine is uncreased & binding tight so belive it probably has not been read. Pages heavily tanned, one has staining from green outside pages (still perfectly readable) & another has crease to corner. We endeavour to send orders as quickly as possible & in most cases are sent by first available post 6 days a week. (180/1). Seller Inventory # 10-DFRM-FR21
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