Ebook {Epub PDF} The Universal Baseball Association Inc. J. Henry Waugh Prop by Robert Coover

The book uses the conceit of a baseball strategy game played by the protagonist to ask questions about reality and morality, life and death. It is a strange trick to think of the characters in the game as pretend and the main character, Henry Waugh, as real since he too is a character in a simulacrum/5(40). The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Coover, Robert Seller Timothy Norlen Bookseller Published Condition Near Fine to Fine Edition First American Edition Item Price $. The Universal Baseball Association (), Coover's most accessible novel to date, is also dominated by religious symbolism. Over the years, J. Henry Waugh, a middle-aged bachelor and accountant, has developed an elaborately structured game, which he plays with dice. His game is based on the mathematical probabilities of baseball/5(9).

The Universal Baseball Association, inc., J. Henry Waugh, prop Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. The Universal Baseball Association, inc., J. Henry Waugh, prop by Coover, Robert. Publication date Topics Accountants Publisher New York, Random House Collection. The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover Not baseball, but I remember creating whole little villages using my mother's trolls, and figuring out relationships and how friendships and marriages rose and fell according to the how the dice rolled. The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry. You'll get access to all of the The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. content, as well as access to more than 30, additional guides and more than , Homework Help.

Robert Coover’s oft-forgotten baseball novel, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., opens in the middle of a game: “Bottom half of the seventh, Brock’s boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go!”. The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. is Robert Coover's second novel, published in The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. is a story of escapism, a tale of fleeing from reality The bus was jammed, they had to stand. People jostled, rammed them moistly toward the rear. Rain drummed on the roof. If skyscrapers were penis-prisons, what were the buses? the efferent tubes? The driver barked orders.