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Cargando... Bucky F*cking Dentpor David Duchovny
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Familiar with the author's TV and screen work, his abilities to write are at or above the same level. The story of a father and son's relationship in need of healing, the son comes to the father's aid when he learns of a terminal health problem. While the plot isn't unique, the son's use of his father's favorite baseball team as the healing element is far from typical. Hilarious, heart warming and offbeat, the journey taken is wonderful; the characters fun, supportive and often, zany. I hope to see more stories from David and highly recommend this one! ( ) I got this book because I'm a long-time David Duchovny fan from his acting work but found he's an incredible writer as well. This is a great book, period, not just a "good book by an actor." The story is emotional and real, and will have you rooting for the characters. I laughed so hard at times and cried at others. This is a touching father and son tale with baseball as the thing that brings them together, but not how you think it will. Duchovny is intelligent, articulate and a born story teller. I can't wait until his next book. It's 1978, "Happy Days" is on tv, the Red Socks and Yankees are locked in their eternal struggle, and Ted the pushing-40, pot-smoking, Grateful Dead-listening, would-be writer Yankee Stadium peanut vendor gets word that his father (to whom he hasn't spoken in 5 years) is dying of cancer. A genial story of fathers, sons and baseball. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent. When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty, is dying of lung cancer, he immediately moves back into his childhood home, where a whirlwind of revelations ensues. The browbeating absentee father of his youth is living to make up for lost time, but his health dips drastically whenever his beloved Red Sox lose. And so, with help from a crew of neighborhood old-timers and the lovely Mariana--Marty's Nuyorican grief counselor--Ted orchestrates the illusion of a Sox winning streak, enabling Marty and the Red Sox to reverse the Curse of the Bambino and cruise their way to World Series victory. Well, sort of David Duchovny's richly drawn Bucky F&%@ing Dent is a story of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, and grapples with the urgent need to find our story in an age of irony and artifice. Culminating in that fateful moment in October of '78 when the meek Bucky Dent hit his way into baseball history with the unlikeliest of home runs, this tragicomic novel demonstrates that life truly belongs to the losers--that the long shots are the ones worth betting on. Bucky F&%@ing is a singular tale that brims with the hilarity, poignance, and profound solitude of modern life"--
"A story of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, which grapples with our urgent need to persevere--and risk everything--in the name of love"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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