| Author | Lauricella, John A., 1961-
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| Title | Home games : essays on baseball fiction / John A. Lauricella.
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| Published | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1999.
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| Description | x, 241 p. ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-7864-0625-9 (library binding : alk. paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Preface. A remarkable question -- Introduction. Baseball by the books -- "I see great things in baseball" : the game and its contexts -- The Black Sox signature : baseball in The great Gatsby -- A picture's worth a thousand : baseball subtext in The sound and the fury -- "A nation of frustrated baseball players" : realism and impressionism -- "How to live in it" : synecdochic naming and Hemingway's baseball games -- The baseball novel : writing a good game -- A portrait of the ballplayer as a young man : Busher Keefe's dramatic monologues -- "Only connect" : the tragicomic romance of Roy Hobbs -- The game's the thing : adventures of Henry Wiggen --Writing baseball : J. Henry Waugh's game-within -- Coming home : baseball in American fiction -- Appendix. Views from the press box : the critical literature.
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| Subjects | American fiction -- History and criticism.
Baseball in literature.
Baseball stories, American -- History and criticism.
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| LC Card Number | 99-10933 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: PS 374 B37 L38
mq230039: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 138854] |
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