The Great American Novel -

Philip Roth

Vintage

1997

420 páginas

14h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780679749066

Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history—it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory.

In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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Depois do Portnoy teve essa fase que o tio do nosso considerado Eli Roth passou a se achar o engraçadão e resolveu virar humorista. Os livros seguintes são horríveis, um monte de piadinha sem graça e prolixia no melhor nível Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega: the breast foi chatão e our gang e great american novel, ó, impossível de aturar a chatice. Cada piadinha mais sem graça que a outra. Volta, Roth sério. Volta.