It Looked Like For Ever [Paperback]

Mark Harris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1989

Henry Wiggen, the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths, returns to narrate another novel in his inimitable manner. Fans who loved him in Bang the Drum Slowly, The Southpaw, and A Ticket for a Seamstitch (all Bison Books) will cheer his comeback. Wiggen is now thirty-nine, a fading veteran with a floating fastball, a finicky prostate, and other intimations of mortality. Released from the Mammoths after nineteen years, the twenty-seventh winningest pitcher in baseball history (tied at 247 victories with Joseph J. "Iron Man" McGinnity and John Powell), Wiggen is not ready to hang up his glove. What impels Henry to pitch against Pate, to trek to California and as far as Japan? He still has a few seasons, a few innings left anyway. Is he principled or possessed? You'll have to decide for yourself as author Mark Harris plays out Wiggen's midlife crisis on familiar American turf: the baseball diamond.

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"If I had a vote, I would put Henry Wiggen up for Cooperstown."—Donald Hall, New York Times Book Review

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"It is a warm, funny, touching book without a trace of sentimentality."—Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin

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Product Details

• Paperback: 276 pages
• Publisher: Bison Books (March 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803272448
• ISBN-13: 978-0803272446
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #560,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Last book of the greatest baseball series, August 31, 1998

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Steven Armbrust (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: It Looked Like For Ever (Paperback)

Although Mark Harris' Henry Wiggen baseball books were written many years ago (starting in the early 50's with "The Southpaw" and "Bang the Drum Slowly," and finishing in the 70's with "It Looked Like For Ever") these are great books that are timeless.

In some ways, "For Ever" is the best of the lot, because it deals with time and aging and how we deal with that. Henry becomes even bigger and more real as he grows fallible. I remain touched to this day.