· Read Online. This book is available for free download in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Letters written by Jack Keefe, a professional baseball player, to his friend Al, at home, give a blow-by-blow account of Keefe's tribulations in the big leagues.4/5(1). Ring Lardner. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, First published Saturday Evening Post, CHAPTER I A Busher's Letters Home. Terre Haute, Indiana, September 6. FRIEND AL: Well, Al old pal I suppose you seen in the paper where I been sold to the White Sox. But you know me Al Lardner's journalistic style shines as he's able to write short, concise notes by Jack back to Al in an vernacular idiom suited for ill-educated but well meaning athlete of the day. I've heard claim that Lardner had an ear for speech patterns and it certainly shows with Jack/5(63).
Read Online. This book is available for free download in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Letters written by Jack Keefe, a professional baseball player, to his friend Al, at home, give a blow-by-blow account of Keefe's tribulations in the big leagues. You Know Me Al is a book by Ring Lardner, and subsequently a nationally syndicated comic strip scripted by Lardner and drawn by Will B. Johnstone and Dick Dorgan. The book consists of stories that were written as letters from a professional baseball player, Jack Keefe, to his friend Al Blanchard in their hometown of Bedford, Indiana. The contemporary critic H.L. Mencken called You Know Me Al "a contribution of genuine and permanent value to the national literature." ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Ring Lardner () was one of the foremost journalists, humorists, and short-story writers of the s and s.
Ring Lardner, You Know Me Al [New York; ] The crowning achievement of a particular, if minor, line in early-twentieth-century U.S. letters: the "epistolary slang" novel. But you know me Al Lardner's journalistic style shines as he's able to write short, concise notes by Jack back to Al in an vernacular idiom suited for ill-educated but well meaning athlete of the day. I've heard claim that Lardner had an ear for speech patterns and it certainly shows with Jack. Always intending to come home during the off season to spend time with Al Bertha he never quite makes it. But you know me Al Lardner's journalistic style shines as he's able to write short, concise notes by Jack back to Al in an vernacular idiom suited for ill-educated but well meaning athlete of the day.
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