Calico Joe
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3.5 • 61 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
'No one does it better than Grisham' - Telegraph
A father's guilt. A son's redemption.
Thirty years have passed since eleven-year-old Paul Tracy watched his troubled father, Warren, a pitcher for the New York Mets, clash with his childhood hero, the Cubs' golden-boy Joe Castle, in a contest from which no winners emerged.
Now the news that his father is dying brings the memory of that day flooding back. Deciding that it's time to face up to what really happened on that baseball field in 1973, father and son make their way to Calico Rock, Arkansas, where either redemption or rejection awaits them.
What readers are saying about CALICO JOE
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350+ million copies, 45 languages, 9 blockbuster films:
NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his latest, Grisham takes another break from blockbuster legal suspense to explore the world of athletics. Decades after the fact, Paul Tracey looks back on the fateful events of the summer of 1973 involving his drunken and abusive father, Warren a pitcher for the New York Mets and a red-hot Chicago Cubs rookie nicknamed Calico Joe. Narrator Eric Singer portrays both Joe and Warren the former innocent and earnest, the latter a bully with energy and passion. The narrator lends Arkansan Joe an accent and cadence that are equal parts aw-sucks nonchalance and deer-in-the headlights wonder. In his portrayal of Warren, Singer effectively channels the character's vitriol both on and off the field; the scenes involving Warren's abusive coaching sessions with young Paul pack a particularly powerful emotional punch. Singer's rendering of the labored speech of an aging Joe in the later portion of the book may seem heavy-handed in some respects, but remains compelling nonetheless. A Doubleday hardcover.
Customer Reviews
Not the usual
Not the usual legal book, but a really enjoyable read. Thoroughly recommended
If I was going to spend £7.99 on this book
I would like an intro to the actual story, not a précis of the game of baseball.
Sorry Mr Grisham, I've thoroughly enjoyed your novels over the years, but I won't be buying this one. Intro's like this are actually driving me back to the book store, and also to the charity shops, where last weeks best seller is this weeks £1 bargain.
It's a shame you can't donate an ebook, in the same way you can a real, old fashioned paper book..