Roger Kahn (1927–2020)
Auteur van The Boys of Summer
Over de Auteur
Roger Kahn is a visiting lecturer on creative writing at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Fotografie: This is a photograph taken by Stephanie Rogers, assistant to the author.
Werken van Roger Kahn
October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978 (2003) 124 exemplaren
Inside big league baseball. 2 exemplaren
The Mutual Baseball Almanac, 1954. 2 exemplaren
How Crested Butte Became a Tourist Town: Drugs, Sex, Sports, Arts, and Social Conflict (2019) 2 exemplaren
夏の若者たち 青春篇 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
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- 1927-10-31
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2020-02-06
- Geslacht
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- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Mamaroneck, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Stone Ridge, New York, USA
Manhattan, New York, USA - Opleiding
- New York University
Erasmus Hall High School - Beroepen
- journalist
columnist - Organisaties
- New York Herald Tribune
Newsweek
The Saturday Evening Post
Esquire
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I couldn't put this one down. Kahn is an excellent writer, and he took me back to the 1920s vividly.
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Dad was a Dodger fan when they were in Brooklyn and Mom went to games with him after they started dating. (Her favorite player was Pee Wee.) My brother and I grew up as Mets fans. This is the foundation story, like Gilgamesh or the Icelandic Sagas: this is baseball in New York.
I've read it at least three times. Some parts more.
The chapter about Jackie made me angry (all over again, as it always does). The chapters about Gil and Campy make me tear up. The first time I read it Furillo's language made me cringe; now I read about him working to build the World Trade Center and I tear up. (Not to self: I need to buy my own copy, because the next time I read it, it will be a tear-stained mess.)
Roger Kahn's writing, of course, is superb.
NOTE: This is a newer edition, probably bought by my brother. (There's a new epilogue.) Don't know where Dad's original copy is, but we probably wore it out. Four people read it, three of us multiple times.… (meer)