num_pages: 400
description: Philip Roth's richly imagined satiric narrative, The Great American Novel , turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an unfettered farceFeaturing heroism and perfidy, lively wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee. "Roth is better than he's ever been before.... The prose is electric." ( The Atlantic )Gil Gamesh is the only pitcher who ever tried to kill the umpire, and John Baal, The Babe Ruth of the Big House, never hit a home run sober. But you've never heard of them -- or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history -- because of the communist plot and the capitalist scandal that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory.
language: English
title: The Great American Novel
titlecomplete: The Great American Novel
genres: Sports, American, Literature, Literary Fiction, Baseball, Novels, Humor, Americana, Fiction, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 2587
publisher: Penguin