Pafko at the wall, a novella, Don DeLillo
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Pafko at the wall, a novella, Don DeLillo
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eng
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fiction
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Pafko at the wall
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51209567
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Don DeLillo
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a novella
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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 Ground in New York. DeLillo's transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sportswriting.--p.[2], Cover
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