Reading Free The Great American Novel

Book Details
⚡️Book Title : The Great American Novel
⚡Book Author : Philip Roth
⚡Page : 448 pages
⚡Published August 1st 2002 by Rowohlt Tb. (first published 1973)

The Great American Novel - Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman John Baal, The Babe Ruth of the Big House, who never hit a homerun sober. If youve never heard of themor of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American historyits because of the Communist plot and the capitalist scandal that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Philip Roth turns baseballs status as national pastime and myth into the occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism, perfidy, ebullient wordplay, and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Reading Free The Great American Novel

The Great American Novel

Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman John Baal, The Babe Ruth of the Big House, who never hit a homerun sober. If youve never heard of themor of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American historyits because of the Communist plot and the capitalist scandal that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Philip Roth turns baseballs status as national pastime and myth into the occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism, perfidy, ebullient wordplay, and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.