The Crowd Sounds Happy
A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball
Nonfiction, Sports, Baseball, Essays & Writings, Business & Finance, Finance & Investing, Real Estate, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Nicholas Dawidoff | ISBN: | 9780307377524 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | May 6, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Nicholas Dawidoff |
| ISBN: | 9780307377524 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | May 6, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, and the awkwardness of first love, The Crowd Sounds Happy is the moving tale of a spirited boy's coming-of-age in troubled times.
Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, and the awkwardness of first love, The Crowd Sounds Happy is the moving tale of a spirited boy's coming-of-age in troubled times.
