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The way home : scenes from a season, lessons from a lifetime / Henry Dunow.
LIBRA Rare GV880.5 .D86 2001b Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunow, Henry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dunow, Henry.
- Little League baseball.
- Baseball coaches--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Baseball coaches.
- Jewish families--New York (State)--New York.
- Jewish families.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 195 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [Bound manuscript].
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Broadway Books [a division of Random House, Inc.], 2001.
- Summary:
- A forty-something dad's misadventures as coach of his son's New York City Little League team leads him to a greater understanding of his own 1950s father, as one father-son relationship sheds light on the other.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Catskills, 1959
- Am I out of my mind?
- The crystal ball
- In the company of boys
- The Old Country
- Which way to first?
- Upper West Side story
- Out at the plate
- Henry's doing yoga
- Liverwurst on rye
- Who are these guys?
- Bringin' it home
- The Shiksa thing
- Small feats of daring
- Lighting out for the territories
- Closing ceremonies
- Epilogue: The Catskills 1959.
- Notes:
- "Bound Manuscript. Not for Sale. Tentative On-Sale Date: 5/15/01. Tentative Price: $21.95 U.S. / $32. 95 Canada ..."
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Epilogue is stapled to blank page.
- Potok Collection copy has letter from Henry Dunow to Chaim Potok laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0767907337
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