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Final Fenway Fiction: More Short Stories from Red Sox Nation [Paperback]

Adam Emerson Pachter
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Book Description

January 1, 2012
For years now the "Fenway Fiction" series has chronicled the Boston Red Sox through short stories, novels, plays, and poetry. Now the series comes to its exciting conclusion in "Final Fenway Fiction", and the book's 23 contributors touch every base in the best collection yet. Within these pages you'll travel back to Babe Ruth's time and a thousand years into the future, visit the beaches of Normandy and Big Papi's favorite Dominican restaurant. You'll cheer from the Fenway stands and the coast of Ireland, revisit World Series highs and late September swoons. So put on your Sox cap and crack open a copy of "Final Fenway Fiction". The series may be ending, but your love of these Red Sox stories will go on and on.

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  • Paperback: 282 pages
  • Publisher: Cornerstone Book Publishers (January 1, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1613420293
  • ISBN-13: 978-1613420294
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,778,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Matthew Hanlon was born in Worcester, Massachusetts a little while back. In the intervening years, he has become a veritable Johnny Appleseed, if Johnny Appleseed had the benefit of air travel, forgot his apple seeds, and forewent the floppy hat.
Matthew failed to plant apple seeds in New York City, London, California, and back in Massachusetts. Unless it turns out that, while eating an apple somewhat *too* vigorously, he swallowed a seed and one has been growing inside him all this time, providing fresh apples regularly to his internal organs, unbeknownst to himself. In which case the Johnny Appleseed comparison is even more apt than he realized.
He has written short stories which have appeared in such diverse collections as "Fenway Fiction," "Further Fenway Fiction," and "Final Fenway Fiction."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Celebrate History Ball Park January 21, 2012
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Just in time for the 100th Anniversary of America's most beloved baseball park, Fenway Park in Boston, comes this great collection of essays, articles, poems and short stories about the Beantown boys of summer. If you're a Red Sox fan, or just love baseball, this book will entertain. Features a gorgeous painted cover by artist Daniel Ibanez.
A truly fun collection for all sports fans.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Baseball Is Life: read it here! March 21, 2012
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First question: why Final? If Baseball is Life, which this collection of mostly short stories and a few poems, each informed in some way by the BoSox, would indicate, why not keep it going? There is a lot here to delight the dedicated and knowledgable Sox fan, but even for the kind of person who would bring a book (!) to Fenway Park just in case things got slow, there is a lot to love in this collection.

Stories about fathers and sons, of course, because so much of baseball centers around fathers and sons. But also stories about fathers and daughters. Uncles and nephews. Mothers and sons. Husbands and wives. Ex- husbands and ex- wives. Management and players. Perps and heroes. War and Peace. Life and Death.

It's all here, Sox Fans, stories ranging from the very good to the (many) truly wonderful. From the Chandleresque to the Kafkaesque.

Second question: hadn't you and your friends (and family) better read 'em before opening day? Because things could get busy, after. This could be the Year. Again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Baseball Fiction March 4, 2012
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Okay, full disclosure: I have an excerpt from my novel in this collection. But I don't think that should prohibit me from reviewing it. First of all, most of us contributors have donated any amount of money we might receive from profits to the Jimmy Fund. Second of all, I had nothing to do with choosing any of the other stories so besides my own story, which I won't comment on, this was just like reading an unknown book to me.

I love the Red Sox and I love baseball and I love baseball fiction so I was pretty sure I would enjoy these stories. But honestly, I was surprised by the excellent writing and the depth and breadth of the stories. I sort of expected "lighter fare" and while there is certainly humor and fun in these pages (Jennifer Rapaport's AFFILIATE details a young woman trying to make a career in sports marketing & also trying to figure out her complicated love life) , there is also a lot of emotion.

Bryan Farrow's UNDERNEATH alternates between a historical look at Babe Ruth's troubled marriage and the desperate young diver trying to find the legendary piano the Babe may have sunk into Sudbury's Willis Pond. Or Tracy Miller Geary's VICTORY, in which a young man faces cancer at the same time he cheers on the Sox.

I could go on about the rest of the 24 stories in this collection, but I'll stop here. This is a engaging read and an original book that makes a great gift for baseball and Red Sox fans!
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