Home Game (novel)

Home Game is a novel by Paul Quarrington, published in 1983 by Doubleday Canada.

[1] The novel's central character is Nathaniel Isbister, a former professional baseball player turned drifter.

[2] Coming across a town dominated primarily by a religious cult called the House of Jonah,[3] 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.

[3] The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Award in 1984.

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