Primeros reseñadoresWilliam Elliott Hazelgrove

A boy with a golden arm but no money for lessons. A mother who wants to give her son his dream before she dies. A broken down World Series pitcher who cannot go on after the death of his wife. These are the elements of The Pitcher. A story of a man at the end of his dream and a boy whose dream is to make his high school baseball team. You will laugh and you will cry as The Pitcher and Ricky prepare for the ultimate try out of life.

THE FUNNIEST NOVEL OF THE ELECTION YEAR. William Elliott Hazelgrove’s Rocket Man is in the tradition of Richard Russo’s Nobody’s Fool, Richard Ford’s Independence Day and Tom Poratta‘s Election; all three writers coming to grips with contemporary life in the suburbs. Rocket Man is a satire of life today. Dale Hammer is trying to get his piece of the American Dream, but he just can’t keep up. In one week, Dale is accused of cutting down the sign to his subdivision, plagued with a father who comes to live over his garage and on the hook for being the Rocket Man of his son’s Scout troop. In a time when the American Dream has become nothing short of being rich and famous, Dale heads for the catastrophe of Rocket Day with one mission—to give his son a sense of independence, and in the process, find himself.

A novel for our time. Dale Hammer is trying to find his part of part of the American Dream. He has moved from the city to the suburbs and in one week he is in danger of losing his home,accused of cutting down the sign to his subdivision, plagued with a father who has come to live over his garage, and on the hook for being Rocket Man for his son's Scout Troop. Dale heads for the catastrophe of Rocket Day with one mission--to give his son a sense of independence and in the process, find himself. This is a satire in the Tom Poratta/Richard Russo mode and mirrors what is going on in the country today.