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My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park

8 reviews
Steve Kluger

Dial, 2008

Something for Everyone
Kluger, Steve. "My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park", Dial, 2008. Something for Everyone Amos Lassen It's the end of the semester and I am right in the middle of grading my students' final papers. I always like to read something light when I am under a lot of pressure and when I found "My Most Excellent Year", I knew I could finish my work quickly. Here ...

Changing Pitches: A Novel of Love and Baseball

11 reviews
Steve Kluger

Backinprint.com, 2007

AN ABSOLUTE (AND UNEXPECTED) DELIGHT
Having been a Steve Kluger fan ever since I read "Last Days of Summer" and "Almost Like Being in Love," I was a little nervous about picking up a copy of his first novel, since it originally came out in 1984 and authors' early works rarely reach the level that their later ones do. True, "Changing Pitches" only hints at the unique narrative style that Kluger would develop more fully in his future ...

Last Days of Summer Updated Ed: A Novel
Steve Kluger

Harper Paperbacks, 2008

Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third baseman for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome the extreme attention of a persistent young fan with an overactive imagination. Then again, this strange, needy kid might be ...

Yank: World War II from the Guys Who Brought You Victory

1 review
Steve Kluger

St Martins Pr, 1990

A "mud-on-your-boots", eye-level picture of World War II
This unique and illuminating book offers an incredible picture of the individual fighting man in the Second World War. Arranged in rough chronological and geographic order, it tells the stories in the words of the men who fought and wrote about it. This is definitely not a romantic, rosy picture of "war heroes", nor do you have to suffer through the details of Rommel's planning, or ...

Last Days of Summer

145 reviews
Steve Kluger, 1999

Tossed the Bookmark
Been reading Last Days of Summer for a couple of months now. Don't use a bookmark in order to lose my place every time I pick it up. I don't want to finish it! It's that and I'm going to miss it like a great old friend, when it's read. Oddly enough, the rereading works pretty well. "Last Days" is filled with so much humor, charm, silliness and stats that I find new life in every old ...

Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel

59 reviews
Steve Kluger

Harper Paperbacks, 2004

truly romantic as a love story should be
I am not going to talk about the wiring, the vocabulary, the plot device, etc. No, I am not interested all your usual technical stuff about writing a good book. I simply love this book because it truly is what it's meant to be: a love story. Love among partners, lovers, friends, family, etc. that are genuine and heart felt. Craige and Travil's road to HEA is one of the most romantic story I have ...