Wilfrid Sheed, Author . Random $29.95 (335p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6105-1
S
heed (Office Politics
), who won a 1987 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes (for Sinatra's The Voice
), spoke over the decades with many of these Great American Songbook creators and their families. In this book, he employs an informal,...
READ FULL REVIEW
Wilfrid Sheed, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (296p) ISBN 978-0-671-44990-2
""Frank and Maisie were . . . kings of the Catholic world from John O'Groats to Borneo . . . certainly in America they loomed enormous,'' writes their son in this arresting re-creation of what it was like to grow up with parents who were, among...
READ FULL REVIEW
Wilfrid Sheed, Author Alfred A. Knopf $16.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-394-55874-5
The assorted writers and editors who live year-round in the Hamptons, looked at askance by the true locals and scornful in turn of the summer people, are a perfect target for satire, and Sheed's new novel gleefully riddles them. There is publisher...
READ FULL REVIEW
Wilfrid Sheed, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-07-056497-8
The assorted writers and editors who live year-round in the Hamptons are a perfect target for satire, and Sheed here ``gleefully riddles them,'' wrote PW. ``The laughs turn a little sour toward the end, in an oddly grating denouement, but until then
READ FULL REVIEW
Wilfrid Sheed, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-06-016531-4
Sheed's collection of essays on sport, although mostly, passionately, on baseball, is yet another happily obsessive contribution to the game's literary pedigree. Born in England, Sheed arrived in this country in 1941 at the age of 10, just in time...
READ FULL REVIEW
Wilfrid Sheed, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-76710-5
Sheed ( Boys of Winter ) brings baseball back to life as everyone would like to remember it in this paean to both the national pastime and to his adopted country. Nine-year-old Sheed and his parents arrived in America in July 1941 to escape the...
READ FULL REVIEW
Wilfrid Sheed, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (252p) ISBN 978-0-671-79215-2
Noted critic, novelist and essayist Sheed recounts his recovery from three major illnesses in this highly personal, torturous, oddly exhilarating chronicle. The first illness, polio, struck in 1945 when he was 14. With unbridled optimism, Sheed...
READ FULL REVIEW
Wilfrid Sheed, Author, John Weiss, Photographer, John Weiss, Author Legacy Words $19.98 (167p) ISBN 978-0-934738-59-0
Weiss, who began stalking major-league players in 1984, here compiles a book of striking, wonderfully revealing photographs. These aren't the figures-in-action shots seen in sports magazines, but pictures of players stretching and kidding around in...
READ FULL REVIEW
