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Home Game (Paperback)

by Paul Quarrington (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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"The book enchants, as if the Brothers Grimm and the Brothers Marx had conspired to perform pratfalls while Freud was looking on, shaking his head." --The Toronto Star

"Quarrington is an excellent writer with a great sense of humour.  With considerable deftness he creates that willing suspension of disbelief that enables us to absorb ourselves in the antics of a rather unbelievable baseball game." --Books in Canada


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Nathanael "Crybaby" Isbister was once the greatest baseball player in the world, but now he's a down-on-his-luck drifter on the road to oblivion.  That is until he wanders into a circus sideshow troupe stranded in a tiny Michigan town dominated by a hellfire-and brimstone religious sect.  The sect vows to drive the troupe out, but give them one unlikely chance to remain--the baseball game to end all baseball games.

A funny, moving novel, Home Game walks the straight but delicate line between absurdity and compassion with dazzling style and expertise.
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you like characters - You'll love this book, Oct 1 2002
By Cordova Bay Entertainment Group, Inc. (Victoria, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
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Sure, some people won't like this book. Decca passed on the Beatles.

It takes a few pages to understand what Quarrington isn't writing about. He is not writing about baseball, the circus, giants, midgets or two-headed dogs. He is writing about you and me.

The characters that populate his books, and this one especially, are there solely to guide us along a self-focused analytical path. By providing a wacky and zany world that reflects a pseudo-reality that allows us to examine ourselves from afar we learn more than if it was a self-help book.

What could be a better read than reading about yourself?

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1.0 out of 5 stars So so writing, May 12 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Home Game: Hockey Life in Canada (Hardcover)
The author writes a preface that gives away too much of the outcome of the team. He rambles on about things that are not only not related to the baseball game, but they are just plain boring. The only good parts about the novel is when the author describes the characters. He gives good examples and paints a clear picture in the mind of the reader.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad reader, May 12 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Home Game: Hockey Life in Canada (Hardcover)
Quarrington's Home Game is a very zany book filled with lots of comedy. The book has one of the hardest riddles in it, lets see if you can figure it out. What walks on four legs in the morning two in the afternoon, and three at night?
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