Home Game

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. One day he wanders into a circus sideshow troupe stranded in a tiny Michigan town dominated by the hellfire and brimstone religious sect. The conflict between these two groups of people all comes down to the baseball game to end all games. Home Game is a funny and moving tribute to baseball and its players.

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.

Paul Quarrington is the author of several novels, including Whale Music, which won the Governor General''s Award and was recently made into a feature film, King Leary, which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, The Life of Hope and Civilization and Its Part in My Downfall.  His non-fiction work entitled Fishing With My Old Guy has just been released.  Paul Quarrington lives in Toronto with his wife and two daughters.