Bang the Drum Slowly (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Harris Finkelstein
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Plot: Tragicomedy
- Time of Work: 1955
- Setting: Perkinsville, New York; Rochester, Minnesota; Bainbridge, Georgia; and New York City
- Principal Characters: Henry W. Wiggen, Bruce Pearson, Holly Webster Wiggen, Katie, Dutch Schnell, Red Traphagen, Goose, Lester T. Moors, Jr., Patricia Moors, Piney Woods
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Sports fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Values, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, South or Southerners, New York City, Friendship, Death or dying, Loyalty, Baseball, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Diseases, Hodgkin’s disease
- Locales: New York, NY, Georgia, Rochester, MN
The Novel
Bang the Drum Slowly is not a sequel to The Southpaw (1953), even though many of the characters in Mark Harris’s earlier novel reappear in this second novel narrated by Henry W. Wiggen (the full title is Bang the Drum Slowly by Henry W. Wiggen: Certain of His Enthusiasms Restrained by Mark Harris). When references are made to The Southpaw, those passages are reprinted in Bang the Drum Slowly. Henry Wiggen, who tells the story, is a star pitcher for the New York Mammoths. Bruce Pearson, his roommate and the third-string catcher for...
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