9780345424419 - Castro's Curveball von Wendel, Tim (13 Ergebnisse)

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Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Sehr gut. 286 Seiten Schutzumschlag etwas bestoßen, Vorbesitzeraufkleber im Vorsatz. Ansonsten innen sauber und ordentlich, sehr guter Zustand. Der Lieferung liegt selbstverständlich eine Rechnung mit ausgewiesener MwSt bei. R04-2 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 505.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition. First Printing. 287 pages. Table, small stain inside front flyleaf. Inscribed by the author on half-title page; signed by the author on title page. A novel about baseball, a country on the brink of revolution, and the man who links them together--Fidel Castro.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Barbara Jean Germano (Author photograph) (illustrator). x, [2], 286, [6] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. RARE signed and inscribed book. Signed by the author on the title page. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Paul and Lynn--To the day baseball brings our countries closer together! Tim Wendel 3/13/99. Tim Wendel (born 1956) is an American writer whose books include narrative nonfiction and novels. Those works include Summer of '68, Cancer Crossings, High Heat, and the popular sports novel Castro's Curveball. His stories and columns have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, National Geographic, Esquire, USA Today, Psychology Today and Washington Post. He has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins. Wendel is the author of more than a dozen books, including Summer of '68: The Season When Baseball, and America, Changed Forever, which was a Top 10 choice by Publishers Weekly. Wendel is an award-winning novelist. Escape from Castro's Cuba was a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist. Wendel has been awarded the Professional Achievement Award and the Award for Teaching Excellence from Johns Hopkins University, both three times. He is a recipient of the Walter E. Dakin Fellow and Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He has narrated and produced several audiobooks and appeared on PBS, NPR, CNN and ESPN. Wendel was one of the founding members of USA Today Baseball Weekly, which he edited and wrote for. Wendel has also garnered the Latino History Award and won the USA Today Luminary Award. Fresh, original, and peopled with a rich cast of colorful characters, Castro's Curveball captures the passion of baseball and the vibrant flavor of Cuba in a grand-slam work of fiction. Whether you believe in fate, the stars, a Supreme Being, or Mr. Coincidence, you can always count on one thing--life will throw you a wicked curveball or two. Billy Bryan has seen his share. A former minor-league catcher for the Washington Senators, Bryan is now a retired high school teacher, widowed with a grown daughter, and "coming to the end of many things." Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant past--and beckons him on a reluctant journey to relive his own extraordinary role in history. In 1947, Bryan is playing winter ball in Cuba, immersing himself in the decadent nightlife of Havana, and dreaming of someday "making it" to the majors. But his future on the diamond is as uncertain as Cuba itself, a country where rumblings of revolution hang in the air like a high fly ball to left. Then one fateful night Bryan witnesses a young student radical named Fidel hurl pitch after amazing pitch. So begins Billy's tug-of-war with destiny--to score a victory for the game he worships, win the heart of the woman he loves, or make his mark in a world racing toward revolution. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: In a touch of iconoclastic ingenuity, Wendel builds on evidence of the youthful Fidel Castro's athletic prowess and pitching ability to construct an outstanding sports novel that also closely observes Cuban society and politics. In fact, he casts the Cuban dictator in what American sports lovers consider a heroic role: baseball player. The account opens in the present with septuagenarian Billy Bryan and his daughter, Cassy, arriving surreptitiously on the island. The trip is inspired by Cassy's discovery of a 1947 photo that shows her father, then an aging winter leaguer, in a friendly pose with a youthful Fidel. Flashbacks return Billy to the halcyon days of prerevolutionary Havana, when nightclubs, casinos, mobsters, prostitutes, secret police and baseball thrived in a nation on the brink of upheaval. Billy recalls his last season with the Havana Lions, and also his love affair with the beautiful Malena Fonseca, photographer of the revolution and friend to Castro. In possession of a phenomenal bender that flummoxes the best hitters, Castro has a future in the game that Billy himself, sadly, does not, a.