num_pages: 645
description: Duncan took almost 10 years to follow up the publication of his much-praised first novel, The River Why, but this massive second effort is well worth the wait. It is a stunning work: a complex tapestry of family tensions, baseball, politics and religion, by turns hilariously funny and agonizingly sad. Highly inventive formally, the novel is mainly narrated by Kincaid Chance, the youngest son in a family of four boys and identical twin girls, the children of Hugh Chance, a discouraged minor-league ballplayer whose once-promising career was curtained by an industrial accident, and his wife Laura, an increasingly fanatical Seventh-Day Adventist. The plot traces the working-out of the family's fate from the beginning of the Eisenhower years through the traumas of Vietnam.
language: English
title: The Brothers K
titlecomplete: The Brothers K
genres: Religion, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Sports, Baseball, Family, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 15491
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Fiction (Finalist), awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Casey Award
publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback