The Way Home: Scenes from a Season, Lessons from a Lifetime - Softcover

Dunow, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767907345 ISBN 13: 9780767907347

Publisher: Broadway Books, 2002

Synopsis

Presents the story of one man's journey of discovery as he coaches his son Max's Little League team on Manhattan's Upper West Side and watches their relationship evolve as he recounts the antics of the team and shares his observations about parenthood, Jewishness, urban life, and the culture of competition among men and boys. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author

Henry Dunow is a literary agent who lives in New York with his wife, Wendy, and their twins, Max and Madeleine.

From the Inside Flap

unow signs up to coach his son Max s Little League team on Manhattan s Upper West Side, he finds himself looking back on his own childhood and his father, Moishe, a Yiddish writer and refugee from Hitler s Europe, who had considered recreation like playing catch with his son narishkeit, foolishness. 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. 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, and comes to understand what being a father to his son can teach him about the man who was his own father.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0767907345
• ISBN 13: 9780767907347
• Binding: Paperback