Bang the Drum Slowly, Mark Harris
Bang the Drum Slowly, Mark Harris
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Bang the Drum Slowly

Author: Mark Harris, Eric Simonson

Narrator: Ed Begley Jr., David Schwimmer, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2001


Synopsis

A new dramatization of one of the greatest baseball stories of all time. A poignant, touching, and often comic tale of a baseball team’s friendship and loyalty to a dying teammate. Adapted from the novel by Mark Harris.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Ed Begley Jr., John Freeland Jr., Henry Harris, Brent Hinkley, Bruce Nelson, Joshua Rifkind, David Robbins, Marcia Rodd, Elizabeth Ruscio, Enrique Sandino, David Schwimmer, Harry Shearer and Jonathan Silverman.

About Mark Harris

From 1990 to 2006, Mark Harris worked as a writer and editor covering movies, television, and books for Entertainment Weekly, where he now writes the Final Cut back-page column. He has written about pop culture for several other magazines as well. He lives in New York City with his husband, Tony Kushner.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve

OK, OK ... I've been thinking about reading this book for ... decades. And every time I've picked it up, I realized I needed to read The Southpaw first, and I wasn't that enthusiastic about starting a serial about baseball. So I finally got around to the The Southpaw, and I thought it was good, bett......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

I haven’t read a book quite like this in my life, and I’m not likely to again—no one else I’ve read writes in anything close to this voice. “But you do miss the noise and the excitement,” he said. “You never pass a ball field without lumping up a little in your throat. Goddam it anyhow, by the ti......more

Goodreads review by Tom

Bang the Drum Slowly is a first-person narrative told by Henry “Author” Wiggam, a major league baseball pitcher and writer. Wiggam’s story is about a dying backup catcher who has no friends on the team and a magical season where everything comes together for Wiggam professionally. The best of times......more

A beautiful novel about baseball and about death, aka TEGWAR, The Exciting Game Without Any Rules. The second and best of Mark Harris's Henry Wiggen books, which the Bison imprint of University of Nebraska Press has brought back into print (though you can still get the paperback containing the three......more