The Devil's Snake Curve: A Fan's Notes From Left Field
Josh Ostergaard
Sold by Paradise Found Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since January 25, 2019
Used - Soft cover
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Paradise Found Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since January 25, 2019
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketLight edge wear and rubbing, interior is clean.
Seller Inventory # 001866
The Devil's Snake Curve offers an alternative American history, in which colonialism, jingoism, capitalism, and faith are represented by baseball. Personal and political, it twines Japanese internment camps with the Yankees; Walmart with the Kansas City Royals; and facial hair patterns with militarism, Guantanamo, and the modern security state. An essay, a miscellany, and a passionate unsettling of Josh Ostergaard's relationship with our national pastime, it allows for both the clover of a childhood outfield and the persistence of the game's service to those in power. America and baseball are both hard to love or leave in this by turns coruscating and heartfelt debut.
Josh Ostergaard holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and an MA in cultural anthropology. He has been an urban anthropologist at the Field Museum and now works at Graywolf Press.
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