Home Game (novel)

{{short description|1983 novel by Paul Quarrington}}

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| author = Paul Quarrington

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| country = Canada

| language = English

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| genre = Novel

| publisher = Doubleday Canada

| pub_date = 1983

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| media_type = Print (Hardback)

| pages = 309 pp

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| preceded_by = The Service

| followed_by = The Life of Hope

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Home Game is a novel by Paul Quarrington, published in 1983 by Doubleday Canada."Quarrington, Paul. Home Game // Review". Winnipeg Free Press, April 16, 1983.

The novel's central character is Nathaniel Isbister, a former professional baseball player turned drifter."A Season for Reading: A bumper crop of releases offers different genres that are sure to please many readers". Windsor Star, July 20, 1996. Coming across a town dominated primarily by a religious cult called the House of Jonah,"'This ain't sports, it's a book review ...or something'". The Globe and Mail, June 13, 1983. he is ultimately called upon to lead the town's only other residents, a ragtag band of circus freaks, in a high-stakes baseball game to determine which of the two groups will be forced to pack up and leave town.

The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Award in 1984."Six finalists for Leacock Medal". The Globe and Mail, April 13, 1984.

Following Quarrington's successes with his later novels King Leary and Whale Music, the novel was republished in paperback by Vintage Canada in 1996.