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Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike On Ted Williams (2010)

by John Updike(Favorite Author)

4.37 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1598530712 (ISBN13: 9781598530711)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Library of America

review 1: Gorgeous. I don't know what it is that makes authors write so lyrically and elegantly about baseball, but this is a fine example of that. The essay published in this commemorative edition is accompanied by the author's preface, written shortly before his death in 2009, and a final short piece that summarises another short biographical piece and the obituary Updike wrote on Williams's passing. The essay itself is also annotated by the author, which works well as a present-day commentary on Updike's early writing and additional details about Williams's character, but occasionally adds more to the text than the reader would wish, the text being perfect, already, on its own.
review 2: Uber smart, as usual, from Updike. This is an early work. Updike's words always... more soar like wild birds, but here, I think he's a bit stilted, trying to out-Fitzgerald Scott Fitzgerald, something like tossing nasty splitters to the little league kids. The great Williams (whose body is frozen, presumably so that he can come back again to physically haunt left field in Fenway when the medical profession discovers how to do it,) wanted Updike to write his biography. Guess he liked looking up all the big words in this short tribute. less

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