Book Description\In this wise, witty story set in West St. Paul in the '60s, a kid named Harlan n... ещё
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Количество страниц, Год издания, ISBN, язык, От автора
Количество страниц
256
Год издания
2003
ISBN
0816640858
язык
Английский
От автора
Book Description\In this wise, witty story set in West St. Paul in the '60s, a kid named Harlan navigates life by focusing on the Twins baseball team, a comic metaphor for hope. Sport is fat with small pleasures. It is a homer and a gift to all of us grownup knothole-game kids. There's a lot to love in this quiet little book, most of all its subtle wisdom about establishing individuality and finding joy amid chaos-in short, about growing up. \ -Minneapolis Star Tribune \Short and sweet, though not too sweet, and blessedly free of sentimentality. Mick Cochrane's intuitive, easygoing style finds a perfect balance mediating between the child and adult points of view.\ -Boston Globe \With beautifully clean prose, Mick Cochrane has given us a novel evocative of everything from Emerson to Kerouac-nothing could be more American.\ -Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel \Cochrane writes convincingly about troubled families without descending into the catch phrases of pop psychology. An appealing read.\ -Buffalo News Mick Cochrane is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota. His first novel, Flesh Wounds, was named a finalist in Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers Competition. He teaches at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.Download DescriptionIn a moving follow-up to his critically acclaimed Flesh Wounds, Mick Cochrane tells the tragicomic story of a ragtag but brave Minnesota family, struggling through awkward suburban poverty in Sport. Sport is the nickname of our wily and wise narrator, the Hawkins family's golden son. He forever attempts to fix the broken machinery of the household -- a chain-smoking 14-year-old brother, a half-crippled mother, an exceedingly deadbeat dad, mountains of unpaid bills, and the futility of their beloved Minnesota Twins. Sport, though, may have found a golden back door. His kind-hearted little league coach is an alumnus of the very stuffy but well-heeled local prep school. And Sport could be his next protege. Loyalty collides head on with opportunity, and our hero has to grow up a whole lot faster than expected.