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Originally Posted by dsvitak
I'm surprised that there isn't more love for Ring Lardner. GREAT writer.
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The time I managed to accidentally include my grandmother's copy of
You Know Me, Al in a batch of books I took to the library's night drop before moving west in 1989 is one of my great shames. (Especially given that the next time I was in Philadelphia was in 1993, which was
far too late for me to fix that error. Grrr.)
I mean, I assume I could buy the book again. But that particular edition (from 1924, IIRC) would be harder to find.
Mark Harris, anyone? I grant you that the Henry Wiggen of
The Southpaw (as performed by Paul Newman on TV in the 1950s) is far less sophisticated than the Tom Seaver-manque Michael Moriarty plays Wiggen as in
Bang the Drum Slowly (1972), but Harris's story still has power.