Sport: A Novel

(Paperback)

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A nostalgic story about a Minnesota boy's search for belonging in a complex world. "In this wise, witty story set in West St. Paul in the '60s, a kid named Harlan navigates life by focusing on the Twins baseball team, a comic metaphor for hope. Sport is fat with small pleasures. It is a homer and a gift to all of us grownup knothole-game kids. There's a lot to love in this quiet little book, most of all its subtle wisdom about establishing individuality and finding joy amid chaos--in short, aboutgrowing up."

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"Cochrane writes convincingly about troubled families without descending into the catch phrases of pop psychology. An appealing read."
"Short and sweet, though not too sweet, and blessedly free of sentimentality. Mick Cochrane's intuitive, easygoing style finds a perfect balance mediating between the child and adult points of view."
"With beautifully clean prose, Mick Cochrane has given us a novel evocative of everything from Emerson to Kerouac--nothing could be more American."