330) but neglects to mention his subsequent year (.255)-or to note that in his final five seasons he hit over. The author celebrates Musial’s great 1962 season (he hit. Vecsey even ends with a personal memory of Musial’s warm hand after a recent handshake. Rarely does the author say anything negative (Musial once refused to sign an autograph), but, otherwise, it’s trivia and treacle. Vecsey narrates chronologically, but there are numerous brief interchapters highlighting moments in Musial’s life, generally designed to establish his sainthood qualifications-his acts of kindness and comments from adoring fans and former teammates. But those who want repetitious pages about the wonders of the character of Stan the Man will find their appetites quickly sated. Readers who want details about Musial’s personal life will have to wait for a more rigorous treatment, as will fans who want thorough descriptions of specific games and seasons. 331 lifetime average and a record 24 All-Star selections-ran from 1941 to 1963. Longtime New York Times sports columnist Vecsey ( Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game, 2006, etc.) wears glasses with deeply Cardinal-colored lenses throughout his anecdotal record of the Hall of Fame left fielder/first baseman, whose spectacular career-which included a. A deeply admiring, fawning biography of the great St.
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Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Within this transitional state-called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo-a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. 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Disgusted by society's materialism, he leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success.' Gordon Comstock decides to live in poverty rather than compromise with the 'money god'. Get ready to explore Keep the Aspidistra Flying and its meaning. Language eng Summary 'Money is what God used to be. Middle class - England | London - Fiction.His family became prosperous during the Victorian era his grandfather made his fortune exploiting the proletariat, the urban working class, and immigrant workers. By buoyant I mean that Orwell was, later on, fast becoming a. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Price: £9.99 'Money is what God used to be. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Gordon comes from the most dismal of all classes, the middle-middle class, the landless gentry (37). 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