Fathers Playing Catch with Sons - (Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR) by Donald Hall (Paperback)

Name: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons - (Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR) by Donald Hall (Paperback)
Brand: North Point Press
SKU: 90808333
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The essays in Fathers Playing Catch with Sons are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game--Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them.
About the Author: Best known as a poet, Donald Hall lived by freelance writing on his New Hampshire farm.
208 Pages
Sports + Recreation, Essays
Series Name: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR

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The essays in Fathers Playing Catch with Sons are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.

In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game--Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong.

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"There will always be golden boys playing in games that have diamonds in them, and those boys will always get old, and life will change, but there's something gently beautiful in that process. Baseball is one metaphor for the changing of seasons, and Hall--as poet and seer here--raises Sport to Art." --Los Angeles Times

"Nobody who like to . . . 'enter the intense, artificial, pastoral universe of the game' will fail to be charmed by Hall's musings." --Newsweek

About the Author

Best known as a poet, Donald Hall lived by freelance writing on his New Hampshire farm. In addition to his many books of poetry, he published short stories, collections of essays, and children's books, including the Ox-Cart Man

Dimensions (Overall): 8.22 Inches (H) x 5.52 Inches (W) x .57 Inches (D)

Weight: .53 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Series Title: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR

Sub-Genre: Essays

Genre: Sports + Recreation

Number of Pages: 208

Publisher: North Point Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Donald Hall

Language: English

Street Date: January 1, 1984

TCIN: 90808333

UPC: 9780865471689

Item Number (DPCI): 247-41-5444

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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