Battle Creek Reviews
“Lasser’s novel offers…snapshots of players throwing and hitting perfectly, moments that remain in memory, expanding into timelessness.” --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
“Lasser’s prose is spare and precise, but the characters he writes about—greenhorns and aging athletes, fathers and sons—are most eloquent in their silence.” --The New Yorker
“Lasser has managed to capture the profound dignity in these ordinary lives and the poetry of a baseball season unsullied by the promise of big money or celebrity. And in the end, within this macho world of reticent action men, this is a novel that turns out to be all about love.” --Baltimore Sun
“One warm, compelling, heart-wrenching, fascinating story….Mr. Lasser’s truest strength is an unassuming genius for characterization.” --Austin Chronicle
“(Lasser’s) language favors honesty over musicality but the narrative, with its poignant and disturbing insights into father-son relationships and its acceptance of the frailty of the human condition, is completely engrossing.” --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“An accomplished first novelist, Lasser subtly connects the love of baseball to the love good men nurture shyly for women and children and for their friends, writing with all the finesse and conviction of the ballplayers he reveres.” --Booklist
“Lasser’s prose is spare and precise, but the characters he writes about—greenhorns and aging athletes, fathers and sons—are most eloquent in their silence.” --The New Yorker
“Lasser has managed to capture the profound dignity in these ordinary lives and the poetry of a baseball season unsullied by the promise of big money or celebrity. And in the end, within this macho world of reticent action men, this is a novel that turns out to be all about love.” --Baltimore Sun
“One warm, compelling, heart-wrenching, fascinating story….Mr. Lasser’s truest strength is an unassuming genius for characterization.” --Austin Chronicle
“(Lasser’s) language favors honesty over musicality but the narrative, with its poignant and disturbing insights into father-son relationships and its acceptance of the frailty of the human condition, is completely engrossing.” --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“An accomplished first novelist, Lasser subtly connects the love of baseball to the love good men nurture shyly for women and children and for their friends, writing with all the finesse and conviction of the ballplayers he reveres.” --Booklist