| Home Game | |
| Author: | Paul Quarrington |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Doubleday Canada |
| Pub Date: | 1983 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages: | 309 pp |
| Preceded By: | The Service |
| Followed By: | The Life of Hope |
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.[2]