BrightLight Books - Central Florida's Top Source for Used Books, DVDs and CDs

The Great American Novel

Author Philip Roth

Format Paperback

Publisher Penguin Books

Category Fiction (Literary & Historical)

Out of Stock

Notify Me

We can notify you when we add a copy of this item to our inventory using your account.

Expecting it to be available? We double-check our inventory before displaying available copies to you which sometimes means an "in stock" item will have no copies available for purchase. We are working to improve this part of our online experience.

View the Book Category Guide

Available Copies Details Synopsis

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 home run sober. If you've never heard of them�or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history�it's 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, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Authors

Philip Roth

Additional Info

Release Date: 1985-09-03
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140076783

No copies of this item are currently available.

The Great American Novel

Out of Stock

Authors

Additional Info

Related products

The Human Stain: A Novel American Trilogy (3)

American Pastoral

The Plot Against America: A Novel

The Counterlife