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GODS OF WOOD AND STONE
By: Mark Di Ionno
Atria Books
March 2019
On Sale: March 5, 2019
400 pages
ISBN: 1501178911
EAN: 9781501178917
Kindle: B078M1PFG3
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Suspense Psychological | Literature and Fiction | Fiction Family Life
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Mark Di Ionno comes the next Great American Novel about the Great American PastimeโThe Natural with echoes of Ford, Updike, DeLillo and Rothโtwo men from disparate worlds and their search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood. Joe Grudeck is a living legendโa first-ballot Hall of Famer beloved by Boston Red Sox fans who once played for millions under the bright Fenway lights. Now, he finds himself haunted by his own history, searching for connection in a world thatโs alienated the true person behind his celebrity facade. Heโll step back into the spotlight once more with a very risky Cooperstown acceptance speech that has the power to change everythingโexcept the darkness in his past. Horace Mueller is a different type altogetherโworking in darkness at a museum blacksmith shop and living in a rundown farmhouse on the outskirts of Cooperstown, New York. He clings to an anachronistic lifestyle, fueled by nostalgia for simpler times and a rebellion against the sport-celebrity lifestyle of Cooperstown, struggling to bring his baseball prodigy son to his side. Gods of Wood and Stone is the story of these two menโframed by the lens of baseball, a timeless, but strikingly singular tale of the responsibilities of manhood and the pitfalls of glory in a painful and exhilarating novel thatโs distinctly American.
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