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BISHOP, MICHAEL Brittle InningsBantam. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0553081365) Hard Cover. Ill.: Dudash, Michael. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Light wear at jacket edges, mostly at the head and heel of spine panel, else fine copy in fine jacket. Faint jacket ripple at bottom edge of spine panel. A clean, square copy without priceclipping. Deeply moving novel, which is a strange label to put on a southern Gothic horror novel. Danny Boles, a new player on a Georgia baseball team in the summer of 1943, befriends the seven foot first baseman and discovers that "Jumbo" Hank Clerval is the actual Frankenstein Monster in disguise playing on a AAA baseball team during WWII. Reminded us of those lazy summer days, playing baseball and taking in all-day monster movie matinees. One of our favorites from the 1990s, in any genre, and a loving homage to Mary Shelley's classic novel and to baseball. "[O]ne of the finest writers working in SF today." Wolfe, Locus Magazine. Award History: 1995 John W. Campbell Award Nominee (lost to Permutation City by Greg Egan); 1995 SF Chronicle Award Winner for Best Novel; 1995 Hugo Award Nominee (lost to Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold); 1995 Locus Poll Award Wiinner for Best Fantasy Novel; 1995 World Fantasy Award Nominee (lost to Towing Jehovah by James Morrow); 1996 Mythopoeic Award Nominee (lost to Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand). Fine/Fine.
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