Last Days Of Summer Updated Edition: A Novel
By (Author) Steve Kluger
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
1st May 2008
United States
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
FIC
Paperback
368
Width 135mm, Height 203mm, Spine 23mm
322g
Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third baseman for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome the extreme attention of a persistent young fan with an overactive imagination. Then again, this strange, needy kid might be exactly what Banks needs.
Steve Kluger has written extensively on subjects as far-ranging as World War II, rock 'n' roll, and the Titanic, and as close to the heart as baseball and the Boston Red Sox. He lives in Santa Monica, California.