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Chargement... Cooperstown: A Novelpar Eugena Pilek
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The concept for this novel is a good one, but the execution leaves something to be desired. As an avid baseball fan, I think I went into this experience with my hopes too high. If you begin by thinking you will be reading a cute, loose story about Cooperstown, New York, I think you'll be okay. I wouldn't recommend this read if you had the same kind of baseball background and expectations I had. ( ) This fits in a sort of genre that tends to sound appealing to me in descriptions but often disappoint in execution: portraits of small towns (this time Cooperstown, New York, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame) with separate chapters devoted to the town's quirky characters. This one added a deep, dark secret that dramatically affected the lives of several of the town's leading citizens but turned out to be something that's hard to believe would have had such an impact. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
An exceptional debut novel lovingly probes the values of faith, family, community, and America's favorite pastime, baseball -- from a captivating new voice in contemporary fiction. Cooperstown, New York, in 1979 (the year Willie Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame), is a close-knit community where gossip is sovereign and baseball is the great American religion. Seen through the eyes of Dr. Kerwin Chylak, a psychiatrist who has recently moved to town with his family, the citizens of Cooperstown are a wildly eclectic team of players that includes an alcohol-befuddled mayor determined to be more than a footnote to history; the town busybody who pitches missiles of miscommunication; a disillusioned ex-ball player turned warrior; and a sports writer who detests baseball. Little do these ordinary people know that they are about to be thrust into an extraordinary situation as the construction of a baseball theme park threatens their quaint way of life. Teetering on the cusp of a decade in which commercialism could swallow them whole, they are spurred to action -- with unexpected, poignant, often hilarious results. Full of baseball legend and lore and featuring an unforgettable cast of unconventional characters, Cooperstown probes the hearts and minds of small-town America. It is a celebration of life in all its struggles, sorrows, and sudden slides into victory. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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