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Away Game

2016

An exploration of the often-fraught relationship between fathers and sons is at the heart of Bob Levin's baseball-themed novel Away Game. It's the story of Hank Bauman who, through the magic of an old baseball board game, is transported from the present to 1955, to Game 7 of the Yankees-Dodgers World Series where his father rooted on his beloved Dodgers -- before his accidental death later that day, when Hank was two years old. Or so the story goes. The reality turns out to be very different, and Hank sets off through the 1960s to track down his runaway father, who's threatened for real this time. Set largely in Middle America in the mid-1960s -- as racial tensions and the Vietnam War are starting to unsettle the country -- Away Game is about blacks and whites, past and present, love and longing, about the curious bonds of family despite decades of separation -- about baseball as common ground.
fiction science fiction time travel

Authors

Bob Levin

Related Organizations

Library and Archives Canada
Ohio University
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
C813/.6
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781772571264 9781459370135
LCCN
PR9199.3.L462
LCCN Item number
A834 2017eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaBNVSL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (214 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)thg00974904 (OCoLC)1000453492 (CaOOCEL)479122
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaBNVSL

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