Date of Award
Spring 2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Committee Director
Michael Pearson
Committee Member
Joe Cosco
Committee Member
Joe Jackson
Abstract
The main theme of this manuscript is disillusionment. In order for this theme to hit home, I needed the character called Greg Larson, along with the reader, and (for the most part) the narrator, to discover this world of minor league baseball at the same time. This would allow me to tease the illusion—to set up baseball as this grand nostalgic enterprise in the beginning in a way that all three of us could believe it (with the exception of some expository asides from the narrator). I could describe my character’s boyish relationship with baseball so that it naturally lent itself to future heartache. That way, all of us together—Greg Larson, the reader, and the narrator—could hop in my beat-down gold Cadillac Deville and drive up to Maryland to lose our youth together, for better and for worse.
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DOI
10.25777/fqsy-bn92
ISBN
9780355094145
Recommended Citation
Larson, Gregory S..
"Clubbie: Two Seasons with Baseball's Broken Dreamers"
(2017). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/fqsy-bn92
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/28