Description:
Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction
Winner of The Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize for Humor
"Chris Bachelder is a witty, compassionate troublemaker, and we need more like him." --George Saunders
Brief description: Chris Bachelder is the author of four novels, including National Book Award finalist The Throwback Special. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Review Quotes: A hilarious literary novel about our least hilarious--and least literary--national pastime. No one who reads it will ever be able to think about football, Joe Theismann, Lawrence Taylor, or indeed the male psyche in quite the same way again.--Tom Bissell, author of Apostle