Underworld
Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.
Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.
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ISBN:
9780330354325 (0330354329)
Pages no: 827
Edition language: English
Ich bin ja sehr leidensfähig und breche ganz selten Bücher ab - das habe ich bei der Strudelhofstiege hinlänglich bewiesen - aber diese Qual war selbst mir zuviel. Da das Buch bei Seite 250 und nach Teil 2 sukzessive noch viel schlechter wurde, habe ich nun abgebrochen, möchte aber die Gründe darleg...
This needs some explaining. After rating many hundreds of read books, this one had me the most perplexed as to how to rate it. I was thinking, either a 3 or a 5. A three, or a five?! It was suggested I average it out as a 4, but that seemed to me to just misrepresent both ratings.There is no questio...
bookshelves: off-tbr-and-into-wpb, summer-2014, abandoned, tbr-busting-2014, next Read in July, 2014 There is a reason why some books loiter on the ereader for a long time. I couldn't get along with this without my top lip curling and that, dear friends, is a bad sign.
Not only was this book a bestseller, you can find superlatives among the blurbs like "great American novel" and "thrilling page-turner." This book was runner-up in a 2006 New York Times survey of eminent authors and critics for best American novel in the last 25 years. All I can say is I felt about ...
This needs some explaining. After rating many hundreds of read books, this one had me the most perplexed as to how to rate it. I was thinking, either a 3 or a 5. A three, or a five?! It was suggested I average it out as a 4, but that seemed to me to just misrepresent both ratings.There is no questio...
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