Published: 1973, Holt McDougal Genre: Fiction Themes: baseball, american culture, humour/farce My rating (out of 5): ❤ I finished reading Philip Roth's 'The Great American Novel' last night, so I went back to the library this morning looking for something to help me get over it. Roth's book was written in the dark ages of 1973, and I am surprised it has survived contact with today's woke generation and remained on the library shelves. It is brilliantly written, but very, very offensive. If you are female, black, disabled, Jewish or were born with dwarfism, this book will push all your buttons. It is a satire about a baseball team that is bordering on farce, so I read it as it was intended to be read, but the language burns the eyes and I'm not sure anyone would touch the manuscript if it was presented to a publisher today. The story is very much about baseball but even I managed to follow along, even though I had no previous understanding of the game. We f...