Bøker av Dan Barry

Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough. Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy KoufaxWhat a bookan exquisite exercise in story-telling, democracy and myth-making. Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award for Let The Great World SpinFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball historya tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues. In the tradition of Moneyball, The Last Hero, and Wicked Good Year, Barrys Bottom of the 33rd is a reaffirming story of the American Dream finding its greatest expression in timeless contests of the Great American Pastime.

A landmark collection of nearly 100 essays by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from 10 years of his popular column entitled "This Land," that presents a rarely-seen and profoundly powerful portrait of America, made up of shimmering snapshots of everyday people and places.

Presents New York from various angles, finding surprise in the familiar, beauty in the rusted, ruined, or paved-over, and intimacy between strangers thrown together by circumstance.

"Beautifully written, utterly felt, it will enrich all who read it."-Anna Quindlen