The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up by Jacob M. Appel

'When the stadium cameras inevitably find him,' wrote reviewer Steve Donoghue, 'and put his picture up on the jumbo-tron for the fans and all the home viewers to see, Arnold does the unforgivable: he sticks out his tongue. During the seventh-inning stretch, fans are asked to rise for the singing of ' God Bless America' in honor of two Bronx soldiers killed in the line of duty.

The title refers to the protagonist, a middle-aged botanist named Arnold Brinkman, who takes his nephew to Yankee Stadium for a baseball game. APPEL ESSAYS Phoning Home NOVELS Millard Salter's Last Day The Mask of Sanity The Biology of Luck Wedding Wipeout The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up. I came close many times, but American publishers appeared to fear the political content of the work and several of them admitted this candidly or even asked me to 'sanitize' the novel.' In 2012, it won the Dundee International Book Prize, one of the UK's most lucrative prizes for an unpublished debut novel, and was published by Cargo Publishing. At the time, I did not think it would take me another eight years to find a publisher. Its sort of like if you stand on one nail, it hurts a lot, but if you lay down on a. Appel is the author of many novels and short story collections including The Man Who Wouldnt Stand Up, Scouting for the Reaper, Phoning Home, Einsteins Beach. 'Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States,' the author explained, 'I knew I wanted to write a book against the backlash of those events. An interview with author of The Biology of Luck, Jacob M. and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books. The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the 2013 International Rubery Book Award and is a 2012 satirical novel by the American writer Jacob M. : The Man Who Wouldnt Stand Up: A Novel (9781981004560) by Appel, Jacob M.

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up by Jacob M. Appel