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You Know Me Al (Paperback)

By: Ring Lardner (Author)

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"When I first read 'You Know Me Al', I...assumed that it was a polished later work. The pacing of the narrative, the expert changes of lens and focus--this could not be the work of a beginner. But it seems that as a storyteller, Lardner was born fully armed. He never knew where it came from and was always uncomfortable with his gift....But in this, this first outing, one still finds the serenity of a man at play, making all the right moves because he doesn't know the game is supposed to be difficult."

"Lardner's work is a contribution of genuine and permanent value to the national literature."

"Mr. Lardner has talents of a remarkable order. With the surest touch, the sharpest insight, he lets Jack Keefe the baseball player cut his own outline, fill in his own depths, until the figure of the foolish, boastful, innocent athlete lives before us."

"My hunch is that the reason why so many thousands responded with such joy to the early baseball stories that became Lardner's most famous book, 'You Know Me Al', was that they heard their own voices therein and were transfixed by what they heard."

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A novel, written in the form of letters, from a minor league ball player to a friend named Al. This book made Lardner's reputation as a premier writer, specifically about baseball.

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