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Rediscover an American classic! The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened by Don Robertson is an emotionally resonant, wonderfully evocative journey back to the early 1950s that reintroduces readers to a teenaged Morris Bird III, one of the most endearing characters in contemporary American literature. Fan Stephen King puts the first book in the Morris Bird III trilogy, The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread "on the same shelf as Catcher in the Rye and The Outsiders," and calls Don Robertson "one of the best unknown novelists in the United States." Find out what you've been missing with The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened.

About the Author :
Don Robertson (1929-1999) wrote eighteen novels, including two others featuring Morris Bird III: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread and The Sum and Total of Now. The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened was made into a movie starring James Earl Jones.

Review :
"Mr. Robertson is a writer of real magnetism, who can make a Midwestern American city shimmer the way the suburbs of Paris or the side streets of London shimmer in other books." -- The New Yorker "If it plucks a half dozen times on heartstrings, it is because the novel is about decent, engaging people trapped by an inevitable anguish which too often incinerates the souls of the undeserving." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Morris Bird lives with all the bittersweet humor that fills the adolescent mind, and Robertson reports it with a gentle, warm, loving hand." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "There is a full portrait of a funny, bright, quixotic, confused, and sometimes pathetic youngster...full of adolescent problem, wishes, and hopes. Robertson has a talent for catching the nuances of young life, expressing them in a gruffly flippant style, mixed with wry pathos." -- Durham, NC Morning Herald "If you have ever been, or loved, a 17-year-old boy, get this book and read it and marvel at the tremendous naturalness with which Mr. Robertson writes." -- Detroit Free Press


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780061868146
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Collins
  • Height: 201 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 218 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0061868140
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 132 mm


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