The M&M Boys

A tender tale of coming-of-age meets baseball heroes In the summer of 1961 a Little League player's joy of making the All-Star team evaporates when his father, too busy with a girlfriend, misses his triumphant opening game and his mother spirals into a bed-ridden depression. Then, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle move next door as they battle to break Babe Ruth's home run record. The three find solace in each other's triumphs, frustrations, celebrations and disappointments.Based on historical facts, The M&M Boys explores the parallel lives of an embittered Maris and a self-destructive Mantle who live together incognito in a remote Queens apartment. Maris, a misplaced Midwesterner, gets booed by the Yankee fans who prefer Mantle, and the press pursue him mercilessly. Mantle, on the other hand, basks in New York fans approval, but a series of injuries destroy his hope of winning the competition. Marshall's friendship unearths childhood memories for both men.

Author: Lara Reznik
Publisher: Violet Crown Publishers
Published: 11/08/2014
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781938749193
ISBN10: 1938749197
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming of Age

About the Author
Lara Reznik grew up on Long Island in the fifties and sixties, attending many Yankee games with her father and Uncle Sol during her childhood. At ten years old, she saw Roger Maris hit his sixty-first home run. In the early seventies she escaped to New Mexico push-starting a Kharman Ghia cross-country. As an English major at the University of New Mexico, Lara studied under esteemed authors Rudolfo Anaya and the late Tony Hillerman. She also attended a summer program at the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop. Ambidextrous from birth, Lara preferred her right-brained creative side, but discovered she could make a better living with her left-brain skills, so entered the I.T. field in 1985. Since the success of her first novel, The Girl From Long Guyland, Lara retired from her day job as an I.T. Manager. Her second novel, The M&M Boys has just been released in paperback. In addition to her novels, Lara has written and optioned three screenplays that have garnered semifinalist and finalist wins in the Austin Heart of Film, Southwest Writers, TV Writer, and Writer's Digest contests. Currently, Lara lives with her husband and two mini Australian Shepherds in Austin, TX, and is busy at work on a new novel.

This title is not returnable