In A Great Day for a Ballgame, narrator Fielding is a writer who sells a story to a fashion magazine and is invited to meet the literary editor Amelia West in her midtown New York office. It turns out shes a fan and, surprise, she instantly likes him in person. For his part, he too is hooked, attracted by her beauty but also by the disarming fact that she really is in tune with him. She can appreciate his wit, observations, and theories. As they start dating, she even understands his concept of a storyline dialoguetwo fictional characters, or real-life people, having a conversation that is moving toward the same end, so that their lines are interchangeable. At one point, when Amelia makes a comment, Fielding comically says, Thats my line. Except for the cigarettes, this could be a story of the present or future, but its also good to see it as a part of New Yorks past. I had a remarkable feeling that I was in one of my own stories, the Fielding character says.

A great day for a ballgame;: A conscious love story

Literature & Fiction

Dawson, Fielding

Literary

Bobbs-Merrill

Tiger Lilies

Biographies & Memoirs

Duke University Press

The greatest story ever told: A transformation

The greatest story ever told: a transformation

Black Sparrow Press

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The man who changed overnight, and other stories & dreams, 1970-1974

Two Penny Lane

History & Criticism

Two penny lane: A novel

Often compared to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the lesser-known beat-generation writer, Fielding Dawson brings us the third novel in his Penny Lane series, not-so-cleverly titled Three Penny Lane. The action of Three Penny Lane consists of two beery friends sitting in a bar while an acquaintance, a recently divorced poet, describes to them at great length his ideas for a movie script about a recently divorced painter. This actually turns out to be an effective narrative framework, adroitly handled by Mr. Dawson. The problem is that the poet's script, filling this clever frame, is a rambling and rather tedious soap opera, in which strident, prolonged but unrevealing altercation among the principals is mistaken for drama. The two friends hugely enjoy the poet's cinematic recitation, but they are probably drunker - and more forgiving - than the average reader. -David Quammen, The New York Times, 1981 One of the more popular passages from Three Penny Lane epitomizes Dawson s style of dialogue: What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your own senses?" "I don't know," said Scrooge. "Why do you doubt your senses?" "Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There 's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are...

Three Penny Lane: A Novel

United States

From "School Days": "Don't be silly. It's always lonesome at first. You're away from home and meeting all new people. Just because bright clean boys are in fraternities and sweet lovely girls are in sororities, it doesn't mean a thing. They're lonely too. Maybe even more lonely. Clean haircuts, nice clothes and white teeth doesn't make good men and women, it just makes them more anxious." Jody frowned and sneered. "Aw you're just jealous." Ann sat back and pulled her legs up under her, lit a cigarette and narrowed her eyes. "Oh?" Jody bent her head. "Well, I am," she whispered.

Krazy Kat and 76 More: Stories 1950-1976

Poetry

A collection of contemporary short stories includes The Unveiling, The Sun Rises into the Sky, and The Man Who Changed Overnight

Krazy Kat and Seventy-Six More, Collected Stories Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Thru Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Six

Short Stories & Anthologies

Black Sparrow Pr

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