David James Duncan
Birth date: January 01, 1952
David James Duncan's Books
So it's fall and I decided to read a baseball themed book. Baseball is one of those sports that is a strange blend of physical, psychological, and zen and I think it makes for a good story backdrop. I had no idea I how fantastic this would be. The Brothers K is the great American novel of the late 2...
No coherent or objective(?) critique from me here. This book made me laugh out loud, swallow hard, re-think one or another premise, and/or simply delight in writing that's adventurous and accommodates flights of the imagination and speculation, yet the author handles language with total confidence, ...
3.5 really with a crap load of reservations, but there was lots to like about this novel so I'm bumping it up rather than down. Give me a week and I could change my mind.
At first it seems like this book is about baseball, and a baseball family. It's not. There is quite a lot of baseball talk (and I'll admit I skimmed over a few pages and paragraphs of baseball stats because I'm not interested nor do I really understand the game), but ultimately this book is very muc...
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