The Great American Novel 3v5q4o

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By Philip Roth 4f5h1f

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Philip Roth's richly imagined satiric narrative, The Great American Novel, turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an unfettered farce

Featuring heroism and perfidy, lively wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee. "Roth is better than he's ever been before.... The prose is electric." (The Atlantic)
Gil Gamesh is the only pitcher who ever tried to kill the umpire, and John Baal, The Babe Ruth of the Big House, never hit a home run sober. But you've never heard of them — or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history — because of the communist plot and the capitalist scandal that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory.

The Great American Novel