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The Great American Novel

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.Philip Roth's richly imagined satiric narrative, The Great American Novel, turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an unfettered farce featuring heroism and perfidy, lively wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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  • "Great American novel"@it
  • "Grosse amerkanische Roman"
  • "The great American novel"@it

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  • "Satirische roman over een Amerikaans honkbalteam tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, waarin de spot gedreven wordt met alle illusies die Amerikanen plegen te koesteren over hun eigen voortreffelijkheid."
  • "A baseball farce in which Philip Roth casts an unlikely group of men as the country's baseball heroes."
  • "A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the "Great American Novel" and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories."
  • "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.Philip Roth's richly imagined satiric narrative, The Great American Novel, turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an unfettered farce featuring heroism and perfidy, lively wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee."@en
  • "Humorously portrays a major-league baseball team's futile attempts to hold on to its fame during World War II."@en

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  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Picaresque literature"
  • "Picaresque literature"@en
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Baseball stories"
  • "Baseball stories"@en
  • "Satire"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Nowele amerykańskie"

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  • "The great American Novel"
  • "Le Grand roman américain"
  • "The Great American novel"
  • "The great american novel"
  • "The Great American Novel"@en
  • "The Great American Novel"
  • "The great American novel"@en
  • "The great American novel"
  • "De grote Amerikaanse roman"
  • "Il grande romanzo americano"@it
  • "Il grande romanzo americano"
  • "La caída de los ídolos"
  • "La caida de los ídolos"@es
  • "Great American novel"@en
  • "The Great american novel"

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