Pafko at the Wall: The Prologue to Underworld by Delillo, Don

Pafko at the Wall: The Prologue to Underworld (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781668227756)

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Format: Hardcover
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Pafko at the Wall: The Prologue to Underworld by Delillo, Don

Pafko at the Wall: The Prologue to Underworld

$20.00
Pafko at the Wall: The Prologue to Underworld by Delillo, Don

Pafko at the Wall: The Prologue to Underworld

$20.00
Format: Hardcover
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"There's a long drive.
It's gonna be.
I believe.
The Giants win the pennant.
The Giants win the pennant.
The Giants win the pennant.
The Giants win the pennant."
--Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951

On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason is razzing Toots Shor in Leo Durocher's box seats; J. Edgar Hoover, basking in Sinatra's celebrity, is about to be told that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb; and Russ Hodges, raw-throated and excitable, announces the game--the Giants and the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York. DeLillo's transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sportswriting.

Author: Don Delillo
ISBN-10: 1668227754
ISBN-13: 9781668227756
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2026
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.35d
By Don Delillo
By Don Delillo
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Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including Underworld, Zero K, Libra, and White Noise, and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda, a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has also written plays and essays. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 2025, the Academy's Gold Medal for Fiction. DeLillo has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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