Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - 7 months ago
Views - 3
Ships From - Arkansas
Est. Publication Date - May 2008
Seller Description
*See photos for condition. Appears to have become wet at some point, though the pages do not show swelling or mold. Slight musty smell. Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, and the awkwardness of first love, The Crowd Sounds Happy is the moving tale of a spirited boy's coming-of-age in troubled times.
Additional Information
The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball
ISBN: 9780375400285
Publisher Description
The author describes coming of age in a disintegrating hometown in a troubled family during the 1970s, and the professional baseball players who become his role models and the game that becomes his se...
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