The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball

By Nicholas Dawidoff

Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, and the awkwardness of first love, The Crowd Sounds Happy is the moving tale of a spirited boy's coming-of-age in troubled times.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: May 6, 2008
• ISBN: 9780307377524