In 2005, Rounder Books released the first-ever collection of Sox-inspired short stories, Fenway Fiction. Response was overwhelming, and before long editor Adam Emerson Pachter was fielding an entirely new roster of submissions for this hotly anticipated sequel. This winning lineup includes several authors featured in the previous volume, along with a strong cast of rookies and newcomers - all paying tribute to the elusive allure of the Boston Red Sox.
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Von Euw stands out in this collection,
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Further Fenway Fiction is a labor of love, and demonstrates a passion that stretches beyond the playing field. Michelle Von Euw's story in particular highlights not only the innocence of the game in its truest form, but also of human nature. Baseball fans, Red Sox diehards, and lovers of short fiction will most certainly enjoy this collection.
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This is an anthology of the out-sized passion of the Red Sox Nation-- all those people who between 1918 and 2004 longed, lusted and tried to stay alive long enough to see the Red Sox take back the World Series.
Not surprising, several of the entries contain parallel love stories. But guess which is more enduring: passion for the Sox or for the love-interest? If you guessed the Sox -- you could be right. There are old games revisited as in an excerpt from the novel Tartabull's Throw in which Cyrus Nygerski, a one-time minor league player, watches a 1967 game with the White Sox. Cyrus is accompanied by a mysterious woman who hands him a purple splotch on a piece of paper. As the drug takes hold, Cyrus watches José Tartabull uncork a throw to home plate. The ball, the sliding runner, the companion's dress and white legs all merge in magical weirdness. An intriguing setup for Henry Garfield's novel of the same name. In a story title Fallout, a couple with a festering thorn in their romance, is held together through that delirious World Series in which the Red Sox finally end the Bambino's Curse. In so doing they also end the boyfriend's shot at getting his first short story published with the resulting fallout. There is The Sixth Game about a cold romance that stirs vaguely while two former lovers watch a Red Sox game--love of the team being the their one enduring passion. "Loretta is the only woman I know," explains the ex boy friend "who understands the infield fly rule, has strong opinions about the designated hitter, and plans March vacations in Winter Haven. I still love her." And the anthology is anchored by a story from the editor that is built around that extraordinary victory lap of the World Series Trophy to every town in Massachusetts. The story takes us to small town of Cuttyhunk off New Bedford and the denouement of a romance in which love of the Red Sox loomed large. This anthology, which intertwines fabled names and past games with fiction, is a great idea. I've always been impressed by how good some sports writers are and how much they find to say about games that involve a limited number of actions repeated over and over again. The writers in this anthology have had no trouble finding fresh takes on a game limited to nine innings; but, as these stories reveal, the game continues to be played on in an unlimited number of emotional innings long after the Fenway crowd is dispersed.
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A Must Have for the Red Sox Fan,
By Billy Lombardo (Forest Park, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Further Fenway Fiction: More Short Stories from Red Sox Nation (Paperback)
Any Boston Red Sox fan has a story to tell you about how his or her own history is somehow inextricably tied up with the history of the Boston Red Sox, and Adam Pachter is no exception. The author and editor was putting the final touches on Fenway Fiction, the first all-fiction anthology of Red Sox fiction in early October of 2004, when later that month the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years. Oddly enough, then, the stories in the first anthology were all written prior to that World Series. After nearly one hundred years of futile hope, Chicago baseball fans won't find it hard to believe that rich fiction is born of such suffering.
Oddly enough, then, the stories in the first anthology, Fenway Fiction, were all written before the Red Sox had won the World Series. There are many Boston fans who worried, as Cubs fans are wont to worry, that something of the beauty of being a Red Sox fan might have been sacrificed in that 2004 championship season. But Further Fenway Fiction suggests that there may be no end to the stories from Red Sox Nation. In addition to stories about fantasy camps and rain delays and the 2004 World Series, Further Fenway Fiction includes a musical, a tragedy, and poetry as well. And in one of the loveliest stories of the anthology, "Inheritance," Lenore Myka writes of an elderly woman and life-long Red Sox fan who entertains her young visitor with stories that hint at fantasy, but under which life and love and passion rage with unassailable truth. If you're an American League fan and you live near Chicago, and all this talk of the Red Sox is making you sick, start writing your stories about 2005. I'll be asking you for them soon.
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