Columbus Slaughters Braves
by Mark Friedman | Sports | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0618025200 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0618025200 Global Overview for this book
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MARK FRIEDMAN’s first novel is the heartbreaking story of two brothers whose lives lead to vastly different fates. Joe Columbus is an ordinary man—a schoolteacher in suburban Maryland, a husband, a father-to-be. His younger brother, CJ, however, is anything but ordinary. A baseball hero, he is the Chicago Cubs’ star third baseman, a young man whose very name suggests he is destined for greatness.
Joe Columbus wants to love his brother, but CJ’s talents and great fortune produce a rift between them that is healed only by tragedy. Joe tells of his brother’s remarkable ascent from the sandlots of their southern California childhood to the ivy-walled shrine of Wrigley Field in an effort to explain not only his brother’s apparently charmed life but also his own failure – his envy, his collapsing marriage, his missteps and cowardice.
A richly imagined story about the complications of our lives – our longing and losses and regrets – this nvoel is for anyone who’s had a hero or wanted to be one. Like W. P. Kinsella’s “Shoeless Joe” and Richard Ford’s “The Sportswriter”, “Columbus Slaughters Braves” is a darkly comic novel that introduces readers to a gifted and perceptive writer.
MARK FRIEDMAN’s first novel is the heartbreaking story of two brothers whose lives lead to vastly different fates. Joe Columbus is an ordinary man—a schoolteacher in suburban Maryland, a husband, a father-to-be. His younger brother, CJ, however, is anything but ordinary. A baseball hero, he is the Chicago Cubs’ star third baseman, a young man whose very name suggests he is destined for greatness.
Joe Columbus wants to love his brother, but CJ’s talents and great fortune produce a rift between them that is healed only by tragedy. Joe tells of his brother’s remarkable ascent from the sandlots of their southern California childhood to the ivy-walled shrine of Wrigley Field in an effort to explain not only his brother’s apparently charmed life but also his own failure – his envy, his collapsing marriage, his missteps and cowardice.
A richly imagined story about the complications of our lives – our longing and losses and regrets – this nvoel is for anyone who’s had a hero or wanted to be one. Like W. P. Kinsella’s “Shoeless Joe” and Richard Ford’s “The Sportswriter”, “Columbus Slaughters Braves” is a darkly comic novel that introduces readers to a gifted and perceptive writer.
