Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale - Softcover

Wilker, Josh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616200693 ISBN 13: 9781616200695

Publisher: Algonquin Books, 2011

Synopsis

Cardboard Gods Wilker marks the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. He captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game.

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Review:

Wilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references than a season of Family Guy everything from Louis L Amour westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You ll love this book. Minneapolis Star Tribune
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I couldn t put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns Goodwin s Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the 70s. The Boston Herald"

"Wilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references than a season of Family Guy--everything from Louis L'Amour westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You'll love this book." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
"I couldn't put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the '70s." --The Boston Herald

About the Author:

Josh Wilker writes about his life and his childhood baseball cards at www.cardboardgods.net. Since his first posting in 2006, his site has been featured in the New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times and on ESPN.com. He is a winner of the Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction and has an MFA from Vermont College. He lives with his wife in Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1616200693
• ISBN 13: 9781616200695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 243