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Synopsis

Narrated by an ancient sportswriter named Word Smith, Philip Roth's satirical 1995 novel is full of baseball jokes, over-the-top plot elements, and outrageous puns (e.g. a 'Babylonian' pitcher named Gil Gamesh, and another named Spit Baal, son of Base). IIt's the story of a mythical ball club, the Ruppert Mundys, part of the defunct 'Patriot League,' who were forever without a home because their stadium was sold to the US Army during World War II. A satire of both American life and the great American pastime, the novel begins the joking with its audacious title. While not generally considered one of Roth's own greatest novels, it is certainly one of his funniest.

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