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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2016
On Sale: April 5, 2016
304 pages
ISBN: 0374110425
EAN: 9780374110420
Kindle: B015CKNXZG
Hardcover / e-Book
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Humor
Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League
grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved
battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow
legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great
American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of
the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic
while slinging peanuts to pay the rent. When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty, is
dying of lung cancer, he immediately moves back into his
childhood home, where a whirlwind of revelations ensues. The
browbeating absentee father of his youth is living to make
up for lost time, but his health dips drastically whenever
his beloved Red Sox lose. And so, with help from a crew of
neighborhood old-timers and the lovely Mariana--Marty's
Nuyorican grief counselor--Ted orchestrates the illusion of
a Sox winning streak, enabling Marty and the Red Sox to
reverse the Curse of the Bambino and cruise their way to
World Series victory. Well, sort of. David Duchovny's richly drawn Bucky F*cking Dent is a story
of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the
Fenway faithful, and grapples with the urgent need to find
our story in an age of irony and artifice. Culminating in
that fateful moment in October of '78 when the meek Bucky
Dent hit his way into baseball history with the unlikeliest
of home runs, this tragicomic novel demonstrates that life
truly belongs to the losers--that the long shots are the
ones worth betting on. Bucky F*cking Dent is a singular tale that brims with the
hilarity, poignancy, and profound solitude of modern life.
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