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A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball
Pantheon
May 2008
On Sale: May 6, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0375400281
EAN: 9780375400285
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From the author of the best-selling The Catcher Was a Spy,
his most original work yet: a memoir of two cities (New
Haven and New York), a family (troubled), a time (the
1970s), a boy who never quite fits in anywhere--and how
baseball helps him find his place in America. The Crowd Sounds Happy is the story of a spirited boy's
coming-of-age in a doomed hometown, with a missing father, a
single mother, and the professional ballplayers who
gradually become the men in his life as he listens to them
every night on the bedside radio. This is a childhood shaped
by remarkable characters, foremost Nicholas Dawidoff's
mother, a stoical, overwhelmed, enterprising woman committed
to securing a more promising future for her children. It
also tells, with the same arresting candor of Dawidoff's
celebrated New Yorker magazine memoir of his father, what
it's like to grow up with a disturbed, dangerous parent.
Here are the events and places that come to define a young
boy's outlook: a local playground, a kidnapping and a
murder, rock 'n' roll, the steamy awkwardness of adolescence
and first love, and the private world of baseball--the inner
game as it has never been described before. The Crowd Sounds Happy is a beautifully written, moving
piece of personal history that transforms ordinary moments
into literature.
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