Bøger af Dan Barry

NIGHTMARE is the secret identity of wrestler Bob White, who with the support from his sidekick, Sleepy (A.K.A. his teenage manager Terry Wake), don special costumes in order to fight crime on many levels! 'Nightmare & Sleepy Classics: Volume Two' collects five thrilling adventures, originally published in Clue Comics #6 - 8, 11 & 13. Each page has been lovingly restored from damaged copies of the original artwork. So sit back and relax, as you travel back to the 1940's, the golden age of comic books, and experience the adventures of one of comic's most underrated duo's!

NIGHTMARE is the secret identity of wrestler Bob White, who with the support from his sidekick, Sleepy (A.K.A. his teenage manager Terry Wake), don special costumes in order to fight crime on many levels! 'Nightmare & Sleepy Classics: Volume One' collects five thrilling adventures, originally published in Clue Comics #1 - 5. Each page has been lovingly restored from damaged copies of the original artwork. So sit back and relax, as you travel back to the 1940's, the golden age of comic books, and experience the adventures of one of comic's most underrated duo's!

Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough. Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy KoufaxWhat a bookan exquisite exercise in story-telling, democracy and myth-making. Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award for Let The Great World SpinFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball historya tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues. In the tradition of Moneyball, The Last Hero, and Wicked Good Year, Barrys Bottom of the 33rd is a reaffirming story of the American Dream finding its greatest expression in timeless contests of the Great American Pastime.

On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. What began as a modestly attended minor league game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings became not only the longest ever played in baseball history, but something else entirely.With Bottom of the 33rd, celebrated New York Timesjournalist Dan Barry has written a lyrical meditationon small-town lives, minor league dreams, and the elements of time and community that conspired one fateful night to produce a baseball game seemingly without end. This genre-bending book, a reportorial triumph, portrays the myriad lives held by the night'sunrelenting grip.An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, Bottom of the 33rd is the rare sports book, one that changes the way we perceive America's pastime, and America's past.

A landmark collection of nearly 100 essays by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from 10 years of his popular column entitled "This Land," that presents a rarely-seen and profoundly powerful portrait of America, made up of shimmering snapshots of everyday people and places.

Presents New York from various angles, finding surprise in the familiar, beauty in the rusted, ruined, or paved-over, and intimacy between strangers thrown together by circumstance.

"Beautifully written, utterly felt, it will enrich all who read it."-Anna Quindlen