Ebook {Epub PDF} Home Game by Paul Quarrington

Home Game is a novel by Paul Quarrington, published in by Doubleday Canada. The novel's central character is Nathaniel Isbister, a former professional baseball player turned drifter. Home Game is a novel by Paul Quarrington, published in by Doubleday Canada. The novel's central character is Nathaniel Isbister, a former professional baseball player turned www.doorway.ru: Paul Quarrington.  · Home Game ebook By Paul Quarrington. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. ISBN. Author. Paul Quarrington.

Canadian writer, musician and hockey bard Paul Quarrington died on Thursday. He was Quarrington, the author of the novels Home Game and Whale Music, was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in. 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. 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. Paul Quarrington's early novels, The Service (), Home Game () and The Life of Hope (), introduce the author's comic vision and explore the mythic and moral structures of human behaviour. While the instability and disorder of experience are dramatized in his work, individual renewal through trial and suffering makes reality partially.

Home Game by Paul Quarrington. Doubleday. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Paul is a funny guy. I was surprised by how funny the novel was. I'd recommend it to any baseball fan. As for content, Home Game is filled with humour and subtle freak humour. Nathaniel Isbister eventually transforms into a freak himself and lives with other freaks. Quarrington was also nominated for the Leacock Award in for Home Game, in for The Life of Hope, in for Whale Music and in for The Boy on the Back of the Turtle. [23] Galveston, published in the United States as Storm Chasers, was nominated for the prestigious Giller Prize. [24].