$40.17
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2018
Summary
The New York Times bestselling author of Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football “knocks it out of the park” in this captivating blend of sports reportage and memoir, exploring the history of the 2016 World Series champions, the Chicago Cubs.
When Rich Cohen was eight years old, his father took him to see a Cubs game. On the way out of the park, his father asked him to make a promise. “Promise me you will never be a Cubs fan. The Cubs do not w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250192783 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250192781 |
| Author: | Rich Cohen |
| Publisher: | Picador USA |
| Imprint: | Picador USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 137mm x 206mm |
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Critics Review
“Plenty enough illumination to wow casual baseball fans and engage even the hardest-core Cubs fan … that long-awaited World Series win was undoubtedly a gift, and Cohen did with it what the best writers do: He turned it into something lasting.”–Josh Noel, Chicago Tribune
“The best sports book of 2017.”–J. Kemper Campbell, Lincoln Journal Star
”[There] is already a succession of books on the Chicago Cubs’ historic 2016 World Series championship … but [Cohen’s] might be the best, since it’s both a deeply satisfying historical account of that colorful franchise and a compelling, all-too-painful personal narrative of one longtime, besotted Cubs fan.” –Booklist, starred review
”[Cohen] rehearses in swift, entertaining fashion the genesis of the team and its glory years (there were many early on) and long decades of mediocrity … His many personal stories, strung like holiday lights throughout the narrative, illuminate a fan’s frangible heart that annually repaired itself.“–Kirkus
Rich Cohen
Rich Cohen is the New York Times-bestselling author of Tough Jews, Monsters, Sweet and Low, The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones, The Chicago Cubs, and The Last Pirate of New York, and, with Jerry Weintraub, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. He is the cocreator of the HBO series Vinyl, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and a writer at large for Air Mail. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award, the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He lives in Connecticut.
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