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"Shameless comic extravagance.... Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself." —The New York Times
"Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick.... An awesome performance." —The New Republic
"Roth is better than he's ever been before.... The prose is electric." —The Atlantic
"Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick.... An awesome performance." —The New Republic
"Roth is better than he's ever been before.... The prose is electric." —The Atlantic
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Word Smith hat die Schnauze voll und will endlich aller Welt die Wahrheit erzählen: die Wahrheit über das tragikomische Schicksal der Ruppert Mundys, des berüchtigtsten Baseballteams aller Zeiten. Smitty muss es wissen, denn jahrzehntelang hat er als Sportreporter das Team bei all seinen heroischen Niederlagen begleitet. Klar, dass hiermit Roths verrücktestes Buch entstanden ist, eine Parodie auf Amerika.
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Roth's ribald rearrangement of American baseball history (as told by an alliterating retired sportswriter, Word Smith, who opens his narrative with the majestic phrase, "Call me Smitty") sets the record straight with respect to the suppressed history of the third professional baseball league, the Patriot League, which flourished from 1898 to 1945. This is a book "about" baseball, America, and "Literatoor" which, like John Kennedy Toole's wonderful book, frequently provokes the reader to laugh out loud. I would rate "A Confederacy of Dunces" to be a superior work, but I also think that those who enjoy the travails of Ignatius J. Reilly will equally enjoy the story of the pathetically decrepit Ruppert Mundys.
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This is one of the funniest damn books ever written; perhaps only a true baseball fan could be so enthusiastic about it, however. I remember with fondness reading it at age 16, and my astonishment continues at both Mr Roth's inventiveness and his adherence to the tradition of baseball. At the very least, read about the exhibition game in Asylum...
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If only I had stopped reading this book about page 300. It was some of the funniest writing I had ever read, funnier than _Portnoy's Complaint_, surely. Hell, funnier than Dave Barry, and smarter. Most of Roth's books have some wicked humor in them, but this is his only out and out farce.
The trials and tribulations of the Rupper Mundys, the baseball team without a home, are some of the most riotously hilarious things ever written about baseball. The first half of the book in particular actually made me laugh out loud several times, and I believe this is because Roth concentrated more on a series of preposterous _baseball_ scenes, delicious parodies of the game I love. It's a farce, but when the Mundys celebrate shutting out a baseball team of asylum inmates in an exhibition game, there's no lack of satire, either.
The problem is, Roth wasn't happy with a plain old farce and satire of baseball, and the second half of the book descends rather rapidly into inanities; it's purely political, in which Communists are attempting to destroy America by undermining the Patriot League (which, of course, they succeed at, and _that's_ why you've never heard of it). The political farce is dreadful, particularly the last hundred pages or so, and I remember being a bit depressed that such a ribald parody turned into an attack on McCarthyism. Not that McCarthyism shouldn't be attacked, but Roth's diversion into it is utterly lame.
I suggest you stop reading about page 340 at the latest, and cherish the rest of the book.
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