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Pride of the Bimbos by John Sayles. 258 pages. Atlantic-Little Brown. $7.95. In this comic first novel, Author John Sayles does not just ask that disbelief be willingly suspended; he wants it lynched. He offers up a woebegone five-man softball team (the "world renowned Barooklyn Bimmmmmboos") scrounging around for the carnival trade in scraggly Southern hamlets. Not only do the Bimbos play their exhibitions in drag, but they boast one of the shortest shortstops in captivity: Midget "Pogo" Burns, a onetime private detective now running from the giant black pimp he once shot up in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

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