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Last Days of Summer

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An edition of Last Days of Summer Updated Ed (1998)

Last Days of Summer

A Novel

  • 3.5 (2 ratings)
  • 9 Want to read
  • 3 Have read

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The hilarious and heart–warming story about a down–and–out kid who finds inspiration in his favourite baseball hero.

In Brooklyn, 1940, a wisecracking, baseball loving twelve–year–old 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 up–and–coming 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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Avon Books
Language
English
Pages
353

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Last Days of Summer Updated Ed
Last Days of Summer Updated Ed: A Novel
2011, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Last Days of Summer Updated Ed
Last Days of Summer Updated Ed: A Novel
June 3, 2008, Harper Paperbacks
Paperback in English - Revised edition
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Last Days of Summer
June 1, 2005, Avon
Mass Market Paperback in English
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Last Days of Summer
June 1, 2005, Avon
in English
Cover of: Last Days of Summer
Last Days of Summer
April 1999, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Unknown Binding in English
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Last Days of Summer
October 1999, Tandem Library, San Val
School & Library Binding in English
Cover of: Last Days of Summer
Last Days of Summer: A Novel
1999, Avon Books
in English
Cover of: Last Days of Summer
Last Days of Summer
April 6, 1999, Harper Paperbacks
in English
Cover of: Last days of summer
Last days of summer: a novel
1998, Bard
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

"Bard."

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

The Physical Object

Pagination
353 p.
Number of pages
353

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24212071M
ISBN 10
0380797631
ISBN 13
9780380797639
LCCN
98011225
OCLC/WorldCat
319766361

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL903550W

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