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Calico Joe
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Calico Joe Hardcover - 2012

by Grisham, John

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  • Hardcover

The careers of a golden-boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths, but it's what happens off the field that makes "Calico Joe" a classic by America's favorite storyteller.

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Doubleday, April 2012. Hardcover. Used.
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  • Title Calico Joe
  • Author Grisham, John
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Doubleday, New York
  • Date April 2012
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0385536070
  • ISBN 9780385536073 / 0385536070
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 14.73 x 2.29 cm)
  • Reading level 900
  • Themes
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Baseball players, Baseball stories
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

JOHN GRISHAM is the author of twenty-four novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and two novels for young readers. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.

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Media reviews

Praise for Calico Joe
 
“Grisham knocks it out of the park.”—The Washington Post
 
“An enjoyable, heartwarming read that’s not just for baseball fans.”—USA Today
 
Praise for John Grisham
 
“Never let it be said this man doesn’t know how to spin a good yarn.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
“Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Citations

  • Booklist, 03/15/2012, Page 18
  • BookPage, 04/01/2012, Page 0
  • Entertainment Weekly, 05/04/2012, Page 75
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2012, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 04/13/2012, Page 0

About the author

John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.

Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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