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âUndoubtedly modern Americaâs finest literary tribute to the baseball since Bernard Malamudâs novel The Naturalâ (Chicago Tribune).  Henry Granville, a baseball fanatic and high school teacher, spends hours in the basement with his young son Danny, introducing him to balls of all shapes and sizes. He even turns the basement into an indoor stadium.  Danny quickly distinguishes himself from his peers, most conspicuously by his ability to throw perfectly with either armâa feat virtually unheard of in baseball. But he also possesses a visionary gift that not even he understands. Danny becomes a superior athlete, skyrocketing through the minor leagues and into the majors where he experiences immediate success, breaking records held for decades. When a journalist, a former student of Henryâs and hungry for a national breakout story, exaggerates the teacherâs obsession and exposes him to the world as a monster, all hell breaks loose and the pressures of media and celebrity threaten to disrupt the world that Henry and Danny have created.  A baseball novelâand much moreâThe Man with Two Arms is a story of the ways in which we protect, betray, forgive, love, and shape each other as we attempt to find our way through life.  âMagical realism meets baseball in [this] debut novel . . . [A] Roy Hobbs-like narrative.â âChicago Magazine  âSings with joy and tragedy . . . An amazing debut, as a lyrical paean to the national pastime and as a touching exploration of the life of a boy becoming a man both blessed and burdened with a unique and extraordinary talent.â âFlagpole |
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