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The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees. Around them baseball itself seems to be collapsing, brought down by a bizarre mixture of criminality, stupidity, and The Great Communist Conspiracy, aimed at the very heart of the American way of life.

In this hilarious and wonderfully eccentric novel Philip Roth turns his attention to one of the most beloved of all American rituals: baseball. Players, tycoons and the paying public are all targets as Roth satirises the dense tapestry of myths and legends that have grown up around The Great American Pastime.



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Shameless comic extravagance' * New York Times *
Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick... An awesome performance * New Republic *
Roth is one of a handful of living American novelists who can be called great * Washington Post *
Roth is better than he's ever been before... The prose is electric * Atlantic *

The Great American Novel

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 18 July 1991
      ISBN-13 9780099889403
      978-0099889403
      ISBN-10 0099889404
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees. Around them baseball itself seems to be collapsing, brought down by a bizarre mixture of criminality, stupidity, and The Great Communist Conspiracy, aimed at the very heart of the American way of life.

      In this hilarious and wonderfully eccentric novel Philip Roth turns his attention to one of the most beloved of all American rituals: baseball. Players, tycoons and the paying public are all targets as Roth satirises the dense tapestry of myths and legends that have grown up around The Great American Pastime.



      Trade Review
      Shameless comic extravagance' * New York Times *
      Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick... An awesome performance * New Republic *
      Roth is one of a handful of living American novelists who can be called great * Washington Post *
      Roth is better than he's ever been before... The prose is electric * Atlantic *

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