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“It is about a baseball player named Roy Hobbs. He’s a young phenom who gets knifed by a woman on a train and falls away from the game for many years, but comes back at the end of his career and makes it to the major league for one moment of potential triumph. It’s a very dark book, in fact. Roy Hobbs is a really one-dimensional figure…On the one hand, it’s a very gritty book, and on the other hand, it has deep mythic undertones. “ Read more...
Chad Harbach, Novelist
“A perfect, mythic take on baseball in which he plays with the myth of the Fisher King and the Holy Grail.” Read more...
Michael Carlson, Sportspersons & Sportswriter
