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The Way Home by Henry Dunow Baseball scenes froma season Lifetime Lessons
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780767907330
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Broadway Books
ISBN-10
0767907337
ISBN-13
9780767907330
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1818673
Product Key Features
Book Title
Way Home : Scenes from a Season, Lessons from a Lifetime
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Judaism / Rituals & Practice, General, Literary, Children's & Youth Sports
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Religion, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-025183
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"A poignant, revealing and useful essay on sports and fatherhood." Robert Lipsyte,New York Times "A beautiful book . . . will strike a universal chord in anyone who ever played ball in the backyard, had a kid in Little League, or rooted for a professional team." Associated Press "The Way Homeis a lovely book, a witty and heartfelt homage to unlikely heroes." Philadelphia Inquirer "Henry Dunow'sThe Way Homefollows in the worthy tradition of Donald Hall'sFathers Playing Catch with Sons,with a lively spicing of Sholem Aleichem. An unusual and worthwhile story." Roger Kahn, author ofThe Boys of Summer From the Trade Paperback edition., "A poignant, revealing and useful essay on sports and fatherhood." Robert Lipsyte, New York Times "A beautiful book . . . will strike a universal chord in anyone who ever played ball in the backyard, had a kid in Little League, or rooted for a professional team." Associated Press "The Way Home is a lovely book, a witty and heartfelt homage to unlikely heroes." Philadelphia Inquirer "Henry Dunow's The Way Home follows in the worthy tradition of Donald Hall's Fathers Playing Catch with Sons, with a lively spicing of Sholem Aleichem. An unusual and worthwhile story." Roger Kahn, author of The Boys of Summer
Dewey Decimal
796.357/092 B
Synopsis
When Henry Dunow signs up to coach his son Max's Little League team on Manhattan's Upper West Side, he finds himself thinking of his own childhood and about his father, Moishe, and what had been missing from their relationship. Moishe, a Yiddish writer who had recently fled Hitler's Europe, was not a typical postwar dad. Though a tender and loving father, he considered recreation like playing catch with his son narishkeit, "foolishness." Such rites of an all-American boyhood as Little League and the world of sports were utterly foreign in Henry's cloistered family. Determined to be a different kind of parent to his first grader, Dunow bumbles through a self-test of fatherhood on the scruffy fields of New York's Riverside Park, playing coach, cheerleader, father, and friend to a ragtag bunch of seven-year-olds, many of whom are discovering baseball for the first time. His Galaxies are a varied lot-from one dreamy little boy who never stops talking to himself in the outfield, and another who has recently suffered a tragic loss and is angry at the world, to one who needs to be pointed in the direction of first base every time he's lucky enough to hit the ball. The Way Home is the affecting and ironic story of Dunow's journey of discovery as he watches his relationship with Max evolve over the course of a Little League season. With the warmth and humor of a natural storyteller, Dunow recounts the antics of the Galaxies and shares keen observations about parenthood, Jewishness, urban life, and the culture of competition among men and boys. Along the way, he explores the difficult separation from his father and the choices he made in life that Moishe did not understand. He finds that what most renews the feeling of connection with his father-even long after he is gone-is the experience of becoming a father himself. The Way Home is a touching story of a man trying to understand what it means to be a father even as he is still coming to terms with what it meant to be a son. It will speak to anyone striving to savor what is most precious and fleeting in family life.
LC Classification Number
GV880.5.D86 2001
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