The Real Dope
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"The Real Dope" from Ring Lardner. American sports columnist and short story writer (1885-1933).
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How’s this for a challenge? Write a humorous book during World War One that can still make readers laugh 100 years later. That’s exactly what Lardner does here, when he turns his famous character Jack Keefe, the semi-literate, big-talking baseball pitcher into a soldier and sends him boasting and bragging to “Nobody’s Land,” where he hilariously ducks every dangerous situation he’s put in.
From W.D.'s list on unjustly forgotten books from World War One.
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