![]() ![]() In 2003, USA Today critic Bob Minzesheimer called the work "one of Roth's least known," and added, ĭaniel Okrent once wrote that if "40 percent of The Great American Novel is out-of-control, the remainder is unmitigated triumph. ![]() The novel's narrator is "Word" Smith, a retired sports columnist who spends 1943 traveling with the Mundys.Ĭharacters on the Mundys roster are parallels of actual replacement players from the World War II era, such as one-armed outfielder Bud Parusha ( Pete Gray). The Port Ruppert Mundys of New Jersey lease their stadium to the United States Department of War at the beginning of the 1943 season-to be used as a soldiers' embarkation point-which forces the athletes to play as the league's first permanent road team. The novel concerns the Patriot League, a fictional American baseball league, and the national Communist conspiracy to eliminate its history because it has become a fully open communist organization. The Great American Novel is a novel by Philip Roth, published in 1973. ![]()
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