Book Overview
Henry Wiggen, the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths, returns to narrate another novel in his inimitable manner. Fans who loved him in Bang the Drum Slowly, The Southpaw, and A Ticket for a Seamstitch (all Bison Books) will cheer his comeback. Wiggen is now thirty-nine, a fading veteran with a floating fastball, a finicky prostate, and other intimations of mortality. Released from the Mammoths after...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803272448
ISBN13:9780803272446
Release Date:March 1989
Publisher:Bison Books
Length:276 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"
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Last book of the greatest baseball series
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Although Mark Harris' Henry Wiggen baseball books were written many years ago (starting in the early 50's with "The Southpaw" and "Bang the Drum Slowly," and finishing in the 70's with "It Looked Like For Ever") these are great books that are timeless.In some ways, "For Ever" is the best of the lot, because it deals with time and aging and how we deal with that. Henry becomes even bigger and more real as he grows fallible. I remain touched to this day.
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