The Way Home: Scenes from a Season, Lessons from a Lifetime

By Henry Dunow

Book Overview

When Henry Dunow signs up to coach his son Max's Little League team on Manhattan's Upper West Side, he finds himself looking back on his own childhood and his father, Moishe, a Yiddish writer and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767907337
• ISBN13: 9780767907330
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Broadway
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

The Way Home

I couldn't put the book down and didn't want it to end. Henry has a very conversational writing style that grabs your heart and involves you emotionally in his wonderful memoir. I laughed and cried my way through every page. It was an incredible journey and one I plan to experience each Father's Day. Henry has a gift and I'm glad he chose to share it with us. Read this book. You will be moved.

Joy and Loss

Dunow is that rare author, unafraid to reveal that with the great joys of life (his son and the pursuit of Little Leaque) comes the haunting realization of great loss (his own father). This story is universal for all of us who are children or parents and the specific care that Dunow takes to sketch a portrait of each young ball player on the team that he coaches is just one example of the deep humanity of the story he chooses to give us. I found this book lovely and a true testament to what it is to be a father. I look forward to his next book perhaps about his daughter, Maddy!

Funny, Moving, Tender and Wise

This is perhaps the richest, most moving and layered book I've read in years. Anyone who's shared a strong interest with their child--particularly if it is an interest that was either notably present or notably absent in your relationship with your parents--will find this book rich with wisdom and insight. Funny, moving, tender and wise, this book bridges genres as easily as it does generations, thanks to the author's deft and nimble writing. (And judging by the photos of him on the front cover and back flap, he's a hunk as well. Too bad he's married, apparently quite happily.)

Lessons from the field...

What a tender and moving story of fathers and sons. Powerful, funny, and tragic, this is a MUST-READ.