{"product_id":"the-great-american-novel-a-novel","title":"The Great American Novel: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wildy inventive sports satire following an imagined major-league baseball team comprised of indigent, elderly underdogs, written with \"shameless comic extravagance\" \u003ci\u003e(New York Times)\u003c\/i\u003e from Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees. Around them baseball itself seems to be collapsing, brought down by a bizarre mixture of criminality, stupidity, and The Great Communist Conspiracy, aimed at the very heart of the American way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this hilarious and wonderfully eccentric novel Philip Roth turns his attention to one of the most beloved of all American rituals: baseball. Players, tycoons and the paying public are all targets as Roth satirises the dense tapestry of myths and legends that have grown up around The Great American Pastime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philip Roth","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":51671382458674,"sku":"9780063499775","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780063499775.jpg?v=1787960523","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/the-great-american-novel-a-novel","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}