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"Beha tackles finance, faith, war, entitlement, and no end of self-destructive acts. I greatly admired both the writing and the ambition." #8212;Ann Patchett A New York Times Editors' Choice Longlisted for the National Book Award Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize and the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize A Best Book of the Year at Kirkus, The Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and BuzzFeed What makes a life, Sam Waxworth sometimes wondered#8212;self or circumstance? On the day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for the Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A data journalist and recent media celebrity#8212;he correctly forecast every outcome of the 2008 election#8212;Sam knows a few things about predicting the future. But when projection meets reality, life gets complicated. His first assignment for the Interviewer is a profile of disgraced political columnist Frank Doyle, known to Sam for the sentimental works of baseball lore that first sparked his love of the game. When Sam meets Frank at Citi Field for the Mets' home opener, he finds himself unexpectedly ushered into Doyle's crumbling family empire. Kit, the matriarch, los
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Christopher R. Beha
- Publisher
- Tin House Books, LLC
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781947793927
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
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