Title:

Underworld

Genre:

Fantasy

Supernatural

Young Adult

Series:

The Last of the Jedi

Binding:

Hardcover

Edition:

1st

Printing:

1st

Narrative:

First Person

Type of Book:

Fiction

Number of Pages:

827

Number of Chapters:

Date Added:

2018-06-26 17:36:57

Synopsis:

Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls ”super-omniscience” the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union’s second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It’s an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca’s pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotterâthe ”shot heard around the world”âand Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra’s shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand.

Author:

Cathy MacPhail

Publisher:

Scribner Book Company

Barcode:

9780684842691

Country:

United States

Place of Printing:

The United States Of America

Publication Date:

1997-01-01

Publication Year:

1997

Number of Copies:

Language:

English

Publisher Location:

New York NY

Special Edition:

Yes

Typeset:

Georgia

Has Dustcover:

Yes

Automatic Estimated Value:

~$12.59

Automatic Estimated Date:

2026-02-06

Date Added:

2018-06-26 17:36:57

Underworld

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