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Original Title:	The Fan
ISBN:	0345445791 (ISBN13: 9780345445797)
Edition Language:	English

The Fan

Peter Abrahams

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.44 | 321 Users | 34 Reviews

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Title	:	The Fan
Author	:	Peter Abrahams
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	May 28th 2002 by Fawcett (first published January 1st 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Sports. Baseball. Suspense. Crime. Thriller

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Baseball sensation Bobby Rayburn’s major-league career is booming, and he just signed a multimillion-dollar contract with the Sox. Knife salesman Gil Renard’s job is hanging by a thread and he just sold his most prized possession to stay afloat. All that keeps Gil going, in the face of divorce, destitution, and desperation, is rooting for the Sox–and the team’s new savior, Bobby Rayburn. But when his idol sinks into the worst slump of his career, Gil realizes he alone has the power to restore the slugger’s mojo. At the lowest point he has ever known, Gil finds his mission in life–a mission he will carry out no matter what it takes or who gets hurt.

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Ratings: 3.44 From 321 Users | 34 Reviews

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I read this book several years ago. I'm sure Boston Red Sox fans love it, about a deranged fan. If you like dark thrillers about deranged killers, then this is the book for you. I will say Peter Abrahams is a very good novelist and know how to devlope and lay out a suspenseful story. I watched the movie afterwards with Robert DeNiro, which is also well done, if you like dark thrillers. I don't.

This was not Abrahams' best book, but the description of the life and few thoughts of a pro-baseball player is worth the read alone. Embedded is a mystery and murder, but Abrahams characterization is the real jewel in this novel.

It was nothing like the movie, it was better!

A good sports book about an obsessive fan, though it is lacking on why Gil turns on his favorite player. Abrahams rushes through the ending and doesn't develop Gil's character and feelings as to why he feels how he does about Rayburn at the end. The movie portrays this much better, though the book has some other interesting elements.

Maybe the most surprising thing about the suspense novel, The Fan by Peter Abrahams is that you don't have to know about baseball (or even sports generally) to enjoy this book. The human qualities brought to life in this story of an obsessed baseball fan and, his counterpart, the million-dollar batter, supersede any focus on sports. Instead, it is the tale of two men, one a sports god (Bobby Rayburn) for whom playing baseball comes effortlessly, and the other is a more familiar person, the

A master class in how to make a thriller with minimal violence. There is no opening with finding the killer's handiwork, no bad guy killing someone every few pages.It's not completely clean of course, but Peter Abrahams finds a way to introduce general unease through another path. It opens up with a scene where Gil is calling a sports radio station, and you can just feel it. Great book, one you can't put it down until the end.

The Fan is a fast paced thriller that will appeal to both to fans of the genre (no pun intended) and to the sports geek who wants to expand into other reading areas. The storyline is fast-paced with quite a bit of suspense and more than enough baseball and behind the scenes of professional sports for the sports enthusiast. The novel does a nice job of switching back and forth between the protagonist (a knife salesman who is down on his luck), the sports star (who also is battling through a