Calico Joe, John Grisham
Calico Joe, John Grisham
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Calico Joe

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: Erik Singer

Unabridged: 4 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/10/2012


Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball…

“Grisham knocks it out of the park.”—The Washington Post

It’s the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone has ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzles Chicago Cubs fans as he hits home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shatters all rookie records. Calico Joe quickly becomes the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing New York Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faces Calico Joe, Paul is in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his dad. Then Warren throws a fastball that will change their lives forever.

About John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was a practicing criminal attorney for over ten years and then served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He published his first novel in 1989 after working on it for five years. ‘A Time to Kill’, his first novel, launched his new career and was later made into a major motion picture. His first bestseller, ‘The Firm’, released in 1991, sold over seven million copies and was made into a box office hit starring Tom Cruise two years later. Almost twenty years later in 2012, a TV series was launched and picks up the life of Mitch McDeere and his family ten years after the events of the novel.

John Grisham has had his novels translated into more than forty languages and has sold nearly 300 million copies worldwide. He is a winner of the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award and is one of only three authors (the other two being Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to ever sell two million copies of a first published novel. Nine of his novels (including ‘The Firm and ‘A Time to Kill’ have been made into major motion pictures.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on July 30, 2012

The greatest triumph in today’s popular fiction could be the equal success John Grisham gets from his deepest hatred and his richest love. Most know that Grisham the author of a number of good and best-selling legal thrillers hates the law. Or more precisely hates the act of lawyering. Fewer probabl......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 03, 2024

Catching up… Oh, how I love my neighbors and their generosity to my Little Free Library Shed. And, it just so happens that this one is going to be a discussion book for the Mobile Public Library in August which I have been invited to attend via Zoom. So, I am looking forward to the discussion. It was......more

Goodreads review by Deacon Tom on February 12, 2021

Another Grisham Winner Fantastic book. I love Grisham. I am a baseball lover and this book touched my heart. The narrator makes the book seem so personal. I highly recommend......more

Goodreads review by La Crosse County Library on May 25, 2022

Review originally published November 2012 Paul Tracy is a software writer with a love for baseball, and a need to find answers to his haunted past. In 1973, when Paul was eleven, his hero was Joe Castle, a first baseman for the Chicago Cubs. His father, Warren Tracy, was a down-and-out pitcher fo......more


Quotes

Praise for Calico Joe

“Grisham knocks it out of the park.”—The Washington Post
 
“An enjoyable, heartwarming read that’s not just for baseball fans.”—USA Today
 
“Grisham has hit a home run.... Calico Joe is a great read, a lyrical ode to baseball, small-town America, youthful innocence and a young boy’s search for heroes.”—The Buffalo News

“[A] pleasure . . . Suffice to say [Grisham] knows his way around the ballpark as well as he does a courtroom.—The Washington Times
 
Praise for John Grisham

“Never let it be said this man doesn’t know how to spin a good yarn.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer