The Crowd Sounds Happy A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball |
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| Author:
| Dawidoff, Nicholas |
| Read by:
| Young, Pat |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5226-7940-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2016 |
| Publisher: | Brilliance Publishing, Inc.
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| Imprint: | Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio |
| Book Format: | CD-Audio |
| List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, and the awkwardness of first love, The Crowd Sounds Happy is the moving tale of a spirited boy's coming-of-age in troubled times.
Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, and the awkwardness of first love, The Crowd Sounds Happy is the moving tale of a spirited boy's coming-of-age in troubled times.