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Double Play Specs:
Product Name
Double Play
Manufacturer
Putnam Publishing Group
Product Number MPN
0399151885
Retail Price
$24.95
UPC
978039915188
Specifications
Title
Double Play
ISBN
0399151885
Author(s)
Robert B. Parker, Parker, Robert B.
Release Date
2004-05-01, 2004-05-24
Format
Hardcover
Num of Pages
320
Num. of Items
1
Deal first added on:
19-February-2004
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"Great Buy & Services"
2009-05-21
- Reviewed By User: ACWUF9NCLI0DW
This was a book that I had checked at serveral book stores without success. I found it on amazon .com great price and excelent services, thanks will be bsck.
"Ultimate Parker for non-Spenser fans"
2009-05-12
- Reviewed By User: AR82WIW7G4S8J
Wonderful examination of the era when Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in the major leagues. Very little baseball in it, so don't worry if you are not a sports fan. It's about a man and a woman, he physically wounded in WWII, she psychologically wounded by circumstance and experience, their struggles to survive, and the eternal search for love. Throw in as hard a hard-boiled private eye as ever existed in literature, and you've got something for everyone.
I had seen some of the movies based on Parker's Jesse Stone, but this was the first book of his I read. I really enjoyed it. While it was a novel, I enjoyed it being based around real people like Jackie Robinson. I really enjoyed the way Parker revealed and developed Burke's character. I was a little surprised by the amount bedroom time for a book about baseball.
I am not an expert on baseball -the sport is not big in my native UK and receives minimal TV exposure .I am pleased to say however ,that despite its being marketed as a baseball themed book it is perfectly possible to enjoy this novel as a taut thriller in its own right without possessing a great knowledge of the sport and its history.If you do possess this interest then it will enhance your appreciation but this is not a prerquisite of enjoyment . It revolves around the first season in the majors of Jackie Robinson ,the first black player to play in a Major League team .Joseph Burke ,a World war 2 veterran ,wounded on Guadalcanal is hired by the franchise owner to act as bodyguard to Robinson .The book here explores familiar Parker territory -the relationshsip between Robinson and Burke evokes that between Hawk and Spencer in Parker's PI series about Spencer and Burke has many things in common with Spencer.Both are ex boxers ,both are widely read and intelligent men ,both are involved in a relationship with an intelligent if somewhat prickly woman and both are called upon to display above average levels of physical toughness in their jobs.
While the book does delve into the history of the baseball season ,to the extent of publishing box scores of the games Robinson was involved in ,the sport is secondary to the relationship and mutual respect between Robinson and Burke .Most prominence however is given to Burke's relationship with Lauren ,an unsatble woman whose father is a luminarty on the local social scene .This relationship is anathema to her father and to Louis Boucicoult the son of a local mobster who wants her for himself and is not above using enforcers from his father's mob to get his way .Burke must protect not only Robinson but himself as their enemies gather
I learned very little of Robinson as a baseball player -the box scores were as meaningless to me as a "wagon wheel" for a cricket innings would be to the average American -but I did get a sense of him as a person and the pressures he faced as a pioneer in the racial integrataion of sport.The book is best enjoyed as a Parker novel not a baseball novel and the virues of all his books are present -smooth redable prose ,good dialogue and a brisk pace
"A short pop out to right."
2008-03-17
- Reviewed By User: A3K398ZEWJ6TY9
Not a bad book for a bargain pick up but nothing really special here. No real intensity and really no care for the main character. A quick read if that's something your looking for.
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