Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle The Historic 2004 Season - Hardcover

O'Nan, Stewart; King, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743267524 ISBN 13: 9780743267526

Publisher: Scribner, 2004

Synopsis

A chronicle of the Boston Red Sox's 2004 baseball season features a running diary of observations, arguments, play analyses, and controversial management decisions, as recorded by a pair of best-selling horror writers--and diehard Red Sox fans. 500,000 first printing.

About this title

Review

"A sweet romance...the details are priceless."

-- Kyle Smith, "People"

"A sweet romance...the details are priceless."

-- Kyle Smith, "People"

""Faithful" isn't just about the Red Sox. It's also about family, friendship, and what it truly means to be a baseball fan and to be -- well, faithful, come hell or high water....The season was full of priceless moments, and King and O'Nan catch nearly all of them in amber."
-- Frank Mosher, "The Boston Globe"

"A sweet romance...the details are priceless."
-- Kyle Smith, "People"

""Faithful" is ultimately a quasi-religious book about what all great religions should be founded upon: love -- in all its blindness and terror and euphoria and purity and, yes, addiction."
-- Dennis Lehane, "Entertainment Weekly"

"Faithful isn't just about the Red Sox. It's also about family, friendship, and what it truly means to be a baseball fan and to be -- well, faithful, come hell or high water....The season was full of priceless moments, and King and O'Nan catch nearly all of them in amber."
-- Frank Mosher, The Boston Globe

"King and O'Nan are the kind of fans who make for great baseball companions: know-ledgeable, opinionated, funny, and irreverent."
-- Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today

"A sweet romance...the details are priceless."
-- Kyle Smith, People

"Faithful is ultimately a quasi-religious book about what all great religions should be founded upon: love -- in all its blindness and terror and euphoria and purity and, yes, addiction."
-- Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly

-Faithful isn't just about the Red Sox. It's also about family, friendship, and what it truly means to be a baseball fan and to be -- well, faithful, come hell or high water....The season was full of priceless moments, and King and O'Nan catch nearly all of them in amber.-
-- Frank Mosher, The Boston Globe

About the Author

Stewart O'Nan's award-winning fiction includes Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, and Emily, Alone. His most recent novel, The Odds, was hailed by The Boston Globe as "a gorgeous fable, a stunning meditation and a hope-filled Valentine." Granta named him one of America's Best Young Novelists. He was born and raised and lives in Pittsburgh.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743267524
• ISBN 13: 9780743267526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 409