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Pafko at the Wall
A Literary Fiction Novella by Don DeLillo
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- Baseball Fiction,
- 1950s New York
This book is for you if you're into...
- Baseball history reimagined with larger-than-life real figures
- Snapshots of 1950s New York woven with celebrity and politics
"There's a long drive. It's gonna be. I believe. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant." -- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951
On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Jackie Gleason is razzing Toots Shor in Leo Durocher's box seats; J. Edgar Hoover, basking in Sinatra's celebrity, is about to be told that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb; and Russ Hodges, raw-throated and excitable, announces the game -- the Giants and the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York.
DeLillo's transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sportswriting.
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