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The Great American Novel is a novel by Philip Roth, published in 1973. The novel concerns the Patriot League, a fictional American baseball league, and the national Communist conspiracy to eliminate its history because it has become a fully open communist organization.
"The Great American Novel" is a book about baseball and its power as heroic and pastoral myth, but savingly tempered by Roth's understanding of the awkward contradiction at the heart of the...
1 Ιαν 1973 · Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity.
11 Μαΐ 2010 · The great American novel by Roth, Philip. Publication date 1973 Topics Baseball teams, Scandals Publisher New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Collection internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 558.4M
10 Δεκ 2020 · A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the "Great American Novel" and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories
23 Αυγ 2020 · A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the 'Great American Novel' and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories
The Great American Novel (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is the term for a canonical novel that generally embodies and examines the essence and character of the United States. The term was coined by John William De Forest in an 1868 essay and later shortened to GAN. De Forest noted that the Great American Novel had most likely not been written yet.
