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Home Game (novel) successes with his later novels "King Leary" and "Whale Music", the novel was republished in paperback by Vintage Canada in 1996. Home Game (novel) Home Game is a novel by Paul Quarrington, published in 1983 by Doubleday Canada. The novel's central character is Nathaniel Isbister, a former professional baseball player turned drifter. Coming across a town dominated primarily by a religious cult called the House of Jonah, 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