Last Days Of Summer

by Kluger, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780060821449
• ISBN10: 0060821442
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-04
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

The hilarious and heartwarming story about a downandout kid who finds inspiration in his favourite baseball hero. In Brooklyn, 1940, a wisecracking, baseball loving twelveyearold boy, Joey Margolis, is in desperate need of a hero. His rich father has recently divorced his mother, leaving her all but penniless, and she is forced to move herself and her son to an Italian dominated part of Brooklyn, where he's the only Jew in the area. Constant abuse from other boys in the neighbourhood prompts Joey to send letters to Charlie Banks, an upandcoming star with the New York Giants, asking for a home run so he can tell everyone that it was for him. Joey uses every trick in the book to get what he wants and the friendship that comes out of their simple correspondence will change them both forever. This improbable friendship is woven together through letters, postcards, notes, telegrams, newspaper clippings, report cards and ticket stubs, and includes a colourful cast of supporting characters. o The joys and sorrows growing up will always have an audience and this novel sheds light on all the complexity of those difficult times, with humour and joy.

Author Biography

Steve Kluger has written extensively on subjects as far-ranging as World War II, rock and roll, and the Titanic, and as close to the heart as baseball and falling in love. His life began all over again on October 27, 2004, when the Boston Red Sox won the World Series.