About this title: A coming-of-age story about young Kincaid Chance, who lives with his religious and baseball-mad family in a small Washington mill town in the early 1960s.
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Description: Fair in Fair jacket. 055337849X This book has some shelf wear as well as tanning and marks on the jacket and pages. The library stamps and stickers are still on this book. This book is 645 pages about a family in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1960's. read more
"Was this the best book I have ever read? Technically speaking, from the standpoint of overall literary quality I would say no. Was it my favorite book ever? No...there were a few points where I got a little bored with whatever was happening, particularly in the middle sections. But there is no doubt at all that this book created a substantial emotional response throughout. And isn't that kind of the point of reading in general? Laugh out loud funny at times, but also completely heart-wrenching. I am definitely NOT a cryer...I can count on one hand the number of times I've cried in the last 15 years...but I was reading this book on an airplane and found myself getting more than a little misty.
The point is, this book is worth the investment, and while I can't give it 5 stars, I would recommend it to anyone and everyone that I come across."
"I really liked this book. It is very long and dense so it takes quite a while to read. The characters are fleshed out well, and, as a reader, you feel like a part of this book. The author was great at creating the family and their interactions with each other and of the places they lived. This book had been on my "to read" list for quite a while because I had read it had great writing. This is definitely a book where you appreciate how important good writing is to a good book.
I was a little concerned at the beginning that I wouldn't like the book because of all the baseball talk. The father played AAA baseball and there was lots of talk about pitching (I am not interested in baseball). Once the main kid, Kade, was older the father was less of a central character in the book and the baseball talk became less of a problem.
"The Brother's K is a story of brothers, of baseball, of bonds; it's a story of religion, of regrets, of relationships. The brothers are the Chance brothers, sons of Hugh Chance, a man whose once promising baseball career has been cut short by an accident at the mill, and Laura Chance, a woman whose religious devotion teeters on the brink towards fanaticism. Baseball and religion shape the flow of the story and the development of the Chance children (four boys and two twin girls).
Kincaid Chance, the youngest brother, narrates much of the novel over a span of time beginning in 1956 and going through the upheavals of the Vietnam War era. Through Kincaid, readers come to know a great deal about the lives of each member of the Chance family, particularly of each one of his brothers as they grow from boys into men.
While baseball and religion (and politics for that matter) factor heavily into the content of this book, The Brothers K is ultimately a story about a family, a flawed family to be sure, but a family where love is present too. The Brothers K is a lengthy book, but for those who like character-driven historical fiction (remember The Brothers Karamazov anyone?), it's worth considering investing the time to read."
"This is the only book that I literally stayed up all night to finish! This is an emotional whip-saw of a read. Duncan will have you laughing out loud in one paragraph, introspective in the next; by the next page you may be crying. Only a handful of books are exceptional enough to be on my top ten. This one is in the top five!"
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