Books by Steve Kluger and Complete Book Reviews
Steve Kluger, Author . HarperPerennial $13.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-06-059583-8
Kluger's latest epistolary novel (after the well-received Last Days of Summer
) is an engrossing, often laugh-out-loud tale of two unlikely lovers. High school jock Craig McKenna and Broadway musical–obsessed Travis Puckett fall in love...
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Steve Kluger, Author . Dial $16.99 (403p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3227-8
Three teens complete an English assignment detailing their “most excellent year” in this big, warmhearted tale about musical theater, political organizing, baseball, friendship and love. Tony Conigliaro Keller (named like everyone in his
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Steve Kluger, Author Bard Books $21 (353p) ISBN 978-0-380-97645-4
Mixing nostalgia, baseball and a boy's mostly epistolary friendship with a 1940s baseball star, this inventive but sentimental novel consists entirely of letters, fictional newspaper clippings, telegrams, war dispatches, report cards and other...
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Steve Kluger, Author Alyson Books $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55583-155-4
Journalist Kluger's first novel takes the form of a diary and scrapbook kept for one season by Scotty MacKay, aging star pitcher for the hapless Washington Senators. PW said, ``as a parody of jock journals, this book misses by lampooning the cast...
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Steve Kluger, Author St. Martin's Press $25 (356p) ISBN 978-0-312-04675-0
Written by enlisted men for enlisted men (contributors included William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, Merle Miller), weekly Yank magazine offered a freewheeling kaleidescopic view of WW II in operational theaters, reserve areas and training camps. The combat
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