The Resource The index of self-destructive acts : a novel, Christopher Beha
The index of self-destructive acts : a novel, Christopher Beha
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The item The index of self-destructive acts : a novel, Christopher Beha represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library.
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- Summary
- "The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for The Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A sports statistician, data journalist, and newly minted media celebrity who correctly forecasted every outcome of the 2008 election, Sam's familiar with predicting the future. But when projection meets reality, things turn complicated. Sam's editor sends him to profile disgraced political columnist Frank Doyle. To most readers, Doyle is a liberal lion turned neocon Iraq war apologist, but to Sam he is above all the author of the great works of baseball lore that sparked Sam's childhood love of the game-books he now views as childish myth-making to be crushed with his empirical hammer. But Doyle proves something else in person: charming, intelligent, and more convincing than Sam could have expected. Then there is his daughter, Margo, to whom Sam becomes desperately attracted - just as his wife, Lucy, arrives from Wisconsin. The lives of these characters are entwined with those of the rest of the Doyle family-Frank's wife, Kit, whose investment bank collapsed during the financial crisis; his son, Eddie, an Army veteran just returned from his second combat tour; and Eddie's best childhood friend, hedge funder Justin Price. While the end of the world might not be arriving, Beha's characters are each headed for apocalypses of their own making."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- 517 pages
- Isbn
- 9781947793828
- Label
- The index of self-destructive acts : a novel
- Title
- The index of self-destructive acts
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Christopher Beha
- Subject
-
- Baseball stories
- Baseball stories
- End of the world
- End of the world -- Fiction
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Psychological
- Families
- Families -- Fiction
- Familles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Family members
- Fiction
- Fictional Work
- Fin du monde -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Forecasting
- Forecasting -- Fiction
- Journalistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Journalists
- Journalists -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- Novels
- Novels
- Prophecy
- Prophecy -- Fiction
- Prophétie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Prévision -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Romans
- Récits de base-ball
- Sports fiction
- Sports fiction
- Baseball -- Fiction
- Sports stories
- Baseball stories
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for The Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A sports statistician, data journalist, and newly minted media celebrity who correctly forecasted every outcome of the 2008 election, Sam's familiar with predicting the future. But when projection meets reality, things turn complicated. Sam's editor sends him to profile disgraced political columnist Frank Doyle. To most readers, Doyle is a liberal lion turned neocon Iraq war apologist, but to Sam he is above all the author of the great works of baseball lore that sparked Sam's childhood love of the game-books he now views as childish myth-making to be crushed with his empirical hammer. But Doyle proves something else in person: charming, intelligent, and more convincing than Sam could have expected. Then there is his daughter, Margo, to whom Sam becomes desperately attracted - just as his wife, Lucy, arrives from Wisconsin. The lives of these characters are entwined with those of the rest of the Doyle family-Frank's wife, Kit, whose investment bank collapsed during the financial crisis; his son, Eddie, an Army veteran just returned from his second combat tour; and Eddie's best childhood friend, hedge funder Justin Price. While the end of the world might not be arriving, Beha's characters are each headed for apocalypses of their own making."--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Beha, Christopher
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Journalists
- Forecasting
- Prophecy
- End of the world
- Baseball stories
- Families
- New York (N.Y.)
- Baseball
- Journalistes
- Prévision
- Prophétie
- Fin du monde
- Récits de base-ball
- Familles
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Psychological
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- Baseball stories
- End of the world
- Families
- Forecasting
- Journalists
- Prophecy
- New York (State)
- Family members
- Label
- The index of self-destructive acts : a novel, Christopher Beha
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1121084592
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- 517 pages
- Isbn
- 9781947793828
- Lccn
- 2020000720
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1121084592
- Label
- The index of self-destructive acts : a novel, Christopher Beha
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1121084592
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- 517 pages
- Isbn
- 9781947793828
- Lccn
- 2020000720
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1121084592
Subject
- Baseball stories
- Baseball stories
- End of the world
- End of the world -- Fiction
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Psychological
- Families
- Families -- Fiction
- Familles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Family members
- Fiction
- Fictional Work
- Fin du monde -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Forecasting
- Forecasting -- Fiction
- Journalistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Journalists
- Journalists -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- Novels
- Novels
- Prophecy
- Prophecy -- Fiction
- Prophétie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Prévision -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Romans
- Récits de base-ball
- Sports fiction
- Sports fiction
- Baseball -- Fiction
- Sports stories
- Baseball stories
Genre
- Fictional Work
- Novels
- Romans
- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Sports fiction
- Sports stories
- Fiction
- Baseball stories
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