TY - SER
KW - baseball
KW - Pittsburgh Pirates
AU - Keith Donohue
AB - The novel begins with the middle-aged male protagonist sprawling in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor with a hole in his skull. He struggles to tell the reader how he got into the prone position, but eight gorgeous women, who lounge in a bedroom nearby, cut him off. In the man’s vision, it seems, each woman narrates a full chapter about her own life.
C1 - 1903
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; North Side; North Shore; Exposition Park; Oakland; Carnegie Museum; Phipps Conservatory
C4 - Literary; Fantasy; Mystery
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.
N2 - The novel begins with the middle-aged male protagonist sprawling in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor with a hole in his skull. He struggles to tell the reader how he got into the prone position, but eight gorgeous women, who lounge in a bedroom nearby, cut him off. In the man’s vision, it seems, each woman narrates a full chapter about her own life.
PB - Crown Publishers
PP - New York
PY - 2011
RN - Keith Donohue (1960— ), born in Pittsburgh, earned a BA and MA at Duquesne University and a PhD with a focus on Irish literature at the Catholic University of America. He works in Washington, DC, as communications director for the U.S. National Archives's grant-making division, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
EP - 342 p.
TI - Centuries of June
ER -