\'A literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the American mythic\' Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants.
And so begins a masterpiece of glorious.
But on the other side of the planet, another highly significant shot was fired: the USSR\'s first atomic detonation. \'A literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the American mythic\' Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants
