| Characters and Plots in the Fiction of Ring Lardner Contributor(s): Gale, Robert L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786436883 ISBN-13: 9780786436880 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2008 Annotation: Ring Lardner wrote brilliant short stories. He was the first and remains one of the best baseball writers. Both his characters and their real counterparts have entries, as do the plots and details of some 35 stories devoted to baseball. But Lardner was more versatile than many readers think, writing 92 hard to categorize non-baseball stories focusing on athletes, writers, theatrical people, musicians, soldiers, embarrassed husbands, and puzzling wives. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - General |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| LCCN: 2008038142 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.99" W x 9.91" (1.48 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This reference book acquaints and reacquaints readers with the brilliant short stories of Ring Lardner, who was the first and remains one of the best contemporary baseball writers--accurate, colloquial, and funny. His characters, both real and fictional, are handled here, as are the plots and details of some 35 short stories devoted almost exclusively to baseball. Equal attention is paid to 92 non-baseball stories, including 34 that are extremely rare and have never been collected in book form. |