The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love and Madness in an American Family

Author/Contributor(s):	Dawidoff, Nicholas
Publisher:	Vintage
Date:	5/5/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, and the awkwardness of first love, The Crowd Sounds Happy is the moving tale of a spirited boy's coming-of-age in troubled times.