{"product_id":"pafko-at-the-wall-the-prologue-to-underworld-don-delillo-hardcover","title":"Pafko at the Wall: The Prologue to Underworld -- Don Delillo, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There's a long drive.\u003cbr\u003e It's gonna be.\u003cbr\u003e I believe.\u003cbr\u003e The Giants win the pennant.\u003cbr\u003e The Giants win the pennant.\u003cbr\u003e The Giants win the pennant.\u003cbr\u003e The Giants win the pennant.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the 75th anniversary of \"The Shot Heard Round the World,\" Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason is razzing Toots Shor in Leo Durocher's box seats; J. Edgar Hoover, basking in Sinatra's celebrity, is about to be told that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb; and Russ Hodges, raw-throated and excitable, announces the game--the Giants and the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York. DeLillo's transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sportswriting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don Delillo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.27h x 5.23w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668227756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including \u003ci\u003eUnderworld, Zero K, Libra, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e White Noise, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe story collection\u003ci\u003e The Angel Esmeralda, a \u003c\/i\u003efinalist for the Story Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has also written plays and essays. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 2025, the Academy's Gold Medal for Fiction. DeLillo has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Delillo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67705885524196,"sku":"9781668227756","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781668227756.jpg?v=1792569656","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/pafko-at-the-wall-the-prologue-to-underworld-don-delillo-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}