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Titel: Double Play (2004)
Beitrag von: Seamus am 25. November 2012, 02:44:13
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Der Roman fängt ca. kurz vor dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs an, als Joseph Burke, der Hauptprotagonist des Buches, in einem Krankenhaus nahe seiner Heimatstadt Boston erwacht. Der sowohl psychisch, als auch emotional angeschlagene Kriegsheld, wird von einer weiteren Sorge geplagt, als er in seine Wohnung zurückkehrt und seine Frau nirgends finden kann. Kurz darauf entdeckt er einen Zettel von ihr an dem steht, das sie ihn verlassen hat und sich mit einen anderen Mann getroffen hat.
Angeschlagen und verzweifelt versucht er alleine mit der Situation zurecht zu kommen und um wieder ein normales Leben zu führen. Nach mehreren kräftezehrenden Jobs entdeckt er seine Liebe zum Baseball...
Der "Dodgers" Besitzer Branch Rickey heuert Burke an um Jackie Robinson, einen farbigen Baseball-Spieler, vor rassistischen Übergriffen zu beschützen.
Review folgt erst in den nächsten Tagen, bin derzeit erst auf Seite 47.
Die Inhaltsangabe stammt von mir selbst da mein Buch keinen Klappentext hatte, also nicht wundern warum keine Quelle vorhanden ist. :D
Der Roman fängt ca. kurz vor dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs an, als Joseph Burke, der Hauptprotagonist des Buches, in einem Krankenhaus nahe seiner Heimatstadt Boston erwacht. Der sowohl psychisch, als auch emotional angeschlagene Kriegsheld, wird von einer weiteren Sorge geplagt, als er in seine Wohnung zurückkehrt und seine Frau nirgends finden kann. Kurz darauf entdeckt er einen Zettel von ihr an dem steht, das sie ihn verlassen hat und sich mit einen anderen Mann getroffen hat.
Angeschlagen und verzweifelt versucht er alleine mit der Situation zurecht zu kommen und um wieder ein normales Leben zu führen. Nach mehreren kräftezehrenden Jobs entdeckt er seine Liebe zum Baseball...
Der "Dodgers" Besitzer Branch Rickey heuert Burke an um Jackie Robinson, einen farbigen Baseball-Spieler, vor rassistischen Übergriffen zu beschützen.
Review folgt erst in den nächsten Tagen, bin derzeit erst auf Seite 47.
Die Inhaltsangabe stammt von mir selbst da mein Buch keinen Klappentext hatte, also nicht wundern warum keine Quelle vorhanden ist. :D
Titel: Re: Double Play (2004)
Beitrag von: wbohm am 25. November 2012, 12:06:42
Hört sich interessant an, für mich als Baseball Fan natürlich besonders.
Jackie Robinson war übrigens der erste Schwarze in der Major League und hat damit die Rassenschranken im Baseball gebrochen. Er spielte für die, damals noch in Brooklyn beheimateten, Dodgers, die Ende der 50er nach Los Angeles umgesiedelt wurden.
Hier scheint ja in dem Roman die Realität mit Fiktion gekoppelt zu sein. Robinson und Rickey gab's ja wie gesagt, aber Burke wird dann wohl fiktiv sein. Die rassistischen Übergriffe gegen Robinson gab es auch.
Jackie Robinson war übrigens der erste Schwarze in der Major League und hat damit die Rassenschranken im Baseball gebrochen. Er spielte für die, damals noch in Brooklyn beheimateten, Dodgers, die Ende der 50er nach Los Angeles umgesiedelt wurden.
Hier scheint ja in dem Roman die Realität mit Fiktion gekoppelt zu sein. Robinson und Rickey gab's ja wie gesagt, aber Burke wird dann wohl fiktiv sein. Die rassistischen Übergriffe gegen Robinson gab es auch.
Titel: Re: Double Play (2004)
Beitrag von: Seamus am 25. November 2012, 22:37:24
Ja das stimmt! :) Robinson und Rickey kannte ich als Fan natürlich, allerdings hatte ich noch nie von einem gewissen Joseph Burke im Baseballsport gehört. Nach und nach erkennt man auch sofort das es ein erfundener Parker-Charakter ist, denn Joseph besitzt einige Paralellen zu Spenser. Besonders die Freundschaft mit Jackie war der von Spenser und Hawk gar nicht so unähnlich...
Übrigens gibt es daneben noch einen weiteren Charakter namens "Bobby". Seine Kapitel haben außer das Bobby auch Baseball Fan ist und in der gleichen Zeit aufwächst, nichts gemeinsam mit denen von Joe und Jackie. Wer genau aufpasst wird wissen wer sich unter dem Pseudonym "Bobby Parker" versteckt. :D
Übrigens gibt es daneben noch einen weiteren Charakter namens "Bobby". Seine Kapitel haben außer das Bobby auch Baseball Fan ist und in der gleichen Zeit aufwächst, nichts gemeinsam mit denen von Joe und Jackie. Wer genau aufpasst wird wissen wer sich unter dem Pseudonym "Bobby Parker" versteckt. :D
Titel: Re: Double Play (2004)
Beitrag von: Seamus am 14. Dezember 2012, 21:29:41
Ich hab das Buch ja schon vor einigen Tagen durchgelesen und es hat mir wunderbar gut gefallen. Die Beziehung zwischen Joe und Jackie war einfach hervorragend und nach gewisser Zeit wuchs die Beziehung zu einer echten Männerfreundschaft heran. Weniger gefallen haben mir dagegen teilweise die Bobby Kapitel, die der Hauptstory manchmal die Spannung nahmen. Aber das ist wirklich nur ein ganz winziger Kritikpunkt. Alles in allem ein super Roman, den ich sicher nicht zum letzten Mal in die Hände genommen habe.
5 Sterne, zum zweiten quasi... :D
5 Sterne, zum zweiten quasi... :D
Titel: Re: Double Play (2004)
Beitrag von: Spenser am 16. Dezember 2012, 05:14:03
5 Sterne, zum zweiten quasi... :D
eigentlich sogar zum dritten ;) :(
Titel: Re: Double Play (2004)
Beitrag von: Spenser am 26. Februar 2013, 02:40:39
Hier habe ich noch eine interessante Rezension gefunden...
In 'Double Play', Robert B. Parker pulls a watershed event from history, mixes it with fine-tuned fictional characters, and bathes both in evocative and detailed period atmosphere. The result is a novel where fact and fiction meet and meld into a seamless pas-de-deux that showcases each to optimum advantage.
Stepping away from his multiple mystery series characters, Parker writes a story about Joe Burke, a fictional bodyguard for Jackie Robinson, who, in 1947 begins his initial season as the first Negro to play major league baseball.* It's an historical event with a gravitas reaching well beyond the confines of the baseball diamond and Parker's story accords it all it deserves - reverence, respect, and accuracy. Part elegy to times past, part ode to the old-fashioned values of decency and duty, fairness and fearlessness, and all hardboiled mystery, 'Double Play' is a sure-fire winner.
'Double Play' is less a story about baseball than it is a story about the racial divides in America in the post-war 40s. Joe Burke, the bodyguard, is physically scarred and mentally battered from serving in battle during World War II. He is a deliberately emotionless white man making his way through the post-war world using the only skill he has yet to acquire, that as a wartime rifleman. Jackie Robinson, highly skilled and highly visible baseball player is personally scarred, most certainly, by the realities of living a black life in a white country. As history bears out, becoming the first Negro player in the Majors will lead to even more scars. Burke and Robinson bond, slowly, through shared experience and shared values. They discover they are more alike than different, more friends than enemies, and that each equally afraid of the darker elements shadowing their world.
Through-out 'Double Play', Parker intersperses the first-person recollections of young "Bobby", clearly the youthful Parker himself, who describes the excitement of wartime for those too young participate in actual fighting, and the details of daily life in the post-war 40s, all with authentic detail and touching sentiment. Bobby writes of his love of baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers; of listening to Red Barber call games on the radio, sharing in the manly rites of summer with his father, along with a small sip of his father's beer; and, as a teenager, of sneaking off to Ebbet's Field, all by himself, to sit with the Negro fans to watch Jackie Robinson play baseball. Bobby's reminiscences add authentic dimension, nuance and a genuinely pure sweetness to the hardboiled story of Joe and Jackie. These chapter, too, offer some of the best nostalgic baseball writing around.
Parker brings his acclaimed bag of writing tricks - character, dialogue and plotting - to 'Double Play'. The Joe/Jackie story, written in the third person, is told mostly in dialogue. 'Double Play's' dialogue, while vintage Parker, is slightly quieter and cleanly stripped down. Much is left unsaid, but all is clearly understood. While Burke resembles Spenser, Parker's famous series detective, and while the developing camaraderie between Burke and Robinson harkens to that of Spenser and Hawk, the tone and tenor of these characters and their repartee is finessed, washed with sepia, to fit within the historical context. It's a subtle but masterful remix of the narrative skills for which Parker has become justly famous.
Vintage, too, is Parker's deft plotting and fine-tuned pacing. This story, stripped of all the baseball, still stands successfully on its own as a fully realized, first-rate mystery novel. Those who have no knowledge of baseball or no particular fondness for it will find this an engrossing, satisfying read. Parker didn't write a "baseball" book and he spends little time, outside the Bobby chapters, on the game itself. But he did chose to reprint actual box scores from some of those years' Dodgers games, with Bobby's admonition that "you can learn a lot from the box scores".
Parker's pulled off a very special triumph - a sensitive story of friendship, honor, decency, and love, mixed with hardboiled action and suspense, all leavened with nostalgia for an era bygone. Mystery reader, baseball fan, or both - all will have something to cheer about.
Quelle: http://trashotron.com/agony/reviews/2004/parker-double_play.htm
In 'Double Play', Robert B. Parker pulls a watershed event from history, mixes it with fine-tuned fictional characters, and bathes both in evocative and detailed period atmosphere. The result is a novel where fact and fiction meet and meld into a seamless pas-de-deux that showcases each to optimum advantage.
Stepping away from his multiple mystery series characters, Parker writes a story about Joe Burke, a fictional bodyguard for Jackie Robinson, who, in 1947 begins his initial season as the first Negro to play major league baseball.* It's an historical event with a gravitas reaching well beyond the confines of the baseball diamond and Parker's story accords it all it deserves - reverence, respect, and accuracy. Part elegy to times past, part ode to the old-fashioned values of decency and duty, fairness and fearlessness, and all hardboiled mystery, 'Double Play' is a sure-fire winner.
'Double Play' is less a story about baseball than it is a story about the racial divides in America in the post-war 40s. Joe Burke, the bodyguard, is physically scarred and mentally battered from serving in battle during World War II. He is a deliberately emotionless white man making his way through the post-war world using the only skill he has yet to acquire, that as a wartime rifleman. Jackie Robinson, highly skilled and highly visible baseball player is personally scarred, most certainly, by the realities of living a black life in a white country. As history bears out, becoming the first Negro player in the Majors will lead to even more scars. Burke and Robinson bond, slowly, through shared experience and shared values. They discover they are more alike than different, more friends than enemies, and that each equally afraid of the darker elements shadowing their world.
Through-out 'Double Play', Parker intersperses the first-person recollections of young "Bobby", clearly the youthful Parker himself, who describes the excitement of wartime for those too young participate in actual fighting, and the details of daily life in the post-war 40s, all with authentic detail and touching sentiment. Bobby writes of his love of baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers; of listening to Red Barber call games on the radio, sharing in the manly rites of summer with his father, along with a small sip of his father's beer; and, as a teenager, of sneaking off to Ebbet's Field, all by himself, to sit with the Negro fans to watch Jackie Robinson play baseball. Bobby's reminiscences add authentic dimension, nuance and a genuinely pure sweetness to the hardboiled story of Joe and Jackie. These chapter, too, offer some of the best nostalgic baseball writing around.
Parker brings his acclaimed bag of writing tricks - character, dialogue and plotting - to 'Double Play'. The Joe/Jackie story, written in the third person, is told mostly in dialogue. 'Double Play's' dialogue, while vintage Parker, is slightly quieter and cleanly stripped down. Much is left unsaid, but all is clearly understood. While Burke resembles Spenser, Parker's famous series detective, and while the developing camaraderie between Burke and Robinson harkens to that of Spenser and Hawk, the tone and tenor of these characters and their repartee is finessed, washed with sepia, to fit within the historical context. It's a subtle but masterful remix of the narrative skills for which Parker has become justly famous.
Vintage, too, is Parker's deft plotting and fine-tuned pacing. This story, stripped of all the baseball, still stands successfully on its own as a fully realized, first-rate mystery novel. Those who have no knowledge of baseball or no particular fondness for it will find this an engrossing, satisfying read. Parker didn't write a "baseball" book and he spends little time, outside the Bobby chapters, on the game itself. But he did chose to reprint actual box scores from some of those years' Dodgers games, with Bobby's admonition that "you can learn a lot from the box scores".
Parker's pulled off a very special triumph - a sensitive story of friendship, honor, decency, and love, mixed with hardboiled action and suspense, all leavened with nostalgia for an era bygone. Mystery reader, baseball fan, or both - all will have something to cheer about.
Quelle: http://trashotron.com/agony/reviews/2004/parker-double_play.htm
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