Her history is a personal account, a memoir of a loving American family amid greater forces, offering a refreshing, female perspective on growing up with baseball. No one writes as well about baseball - period. Angell still writes baseball essays for The New Yorker , and he's currently at work on a book about pitcher David Cone. But you won't find a more literate, informative writer on the sport. Angell's prose will heighten your appreciation for the game and its competitors while bringing once-heroic figures like Gorman Thomas, Johnny Bench, Mark Fidrych, and Carl Yastremski back to life.
Serious books are great.
Underworld , DeLillo's most recent novel, is bigger and more comprehensive in scope and purpose than White Noise, but I'm not sure it's better, and it's certainly nowhere near as funny. The best scenes in White Noise take place in supermarkets. And though some might say the book is about death and obsession and the fear of open spaces, mostly I remember the long, sociological explanations of produce. I read an essay somewhere in which a critic compared Antrim to David Foster Wallace. A few days later, I found this book at Powell's and got hooked immediately.