The Seventh Babe

by Jerome Charyn

Book Overview

Baseball fiction that flies high above its genre

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877952205
• ISBN13: 9780877952206
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great

Thank goodness this baby came back into print! I echo what the guys below have said, and add only that if you've read other greats in this genre--The Great American Novel, The Celebrant, Shoeless Joe, Sam's Legacy--this will stand proudly along side them, and should be next.

Reality is just a word

In my misspent youth there was a confection that kept calling itself a gum and a candy. In fact, it was neither. "The Seventh Babe" is the literary equivalent of that product. It proports to be a baseball novel, yet how many novels on that genre tell us of a Neverland of baseball players, living outside of time and practicing the purest joyful form of the game. It might be a fantasy, yet the elements of out national pastime shape it's direction more then any dragon or demon. Did the baseball strike of a few years ago kill your love for the sport? Here is the remedy! Real yet magical. Jerome Charyn has show us there is no voice quite like his.