“On Home Ground raises contemporary questions for its young readers and does so with such skill, it achieves a success far beyond an exercise in baseball and nostalgia.”-The New York Times Book Review
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Grade 7 Up Mark Twain once said, ``When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years.'' In essence, this is a story of a boy Aaron, albeit much younger than 14, who discovers just that. He finally realizes his father has one foot in the old country of Russia and another in the new landNew Yorkwhere he's fighting to keep his heritage. Narrating in the first person, Lelchuk has written this book in a chatty conversational style. Adults will enjoy this look back in time to the '40s when Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers were playing ball, but a limited audience of young adults will choose it for their own entertainment. Blair Christolon, Prince William Library, Manassas, Va.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Alan Lelchuk is the author of six novels, including American Mischief, Miriam at Thirty-Four, Brooklyn Boy, and Playing the Game. He has also co-edited an anthology of Hebrew fiction in English translation, entitled "Eight Great Hebrew Short Novels."
He is a co-founder of Steerforth Press, a literary publishing house (in Vermont), where he serves as an editor.
He received his BA from Brooklyn College (1960,World Literature), and his graduate degrees from Stanford Univ in English (Ph.D.,1965). He has taught at Brandeis, Amherst College, and since 1985 at Dartmouth. (He spent a Fulbright year at Haifa University,1986-87, as writer in residence.) He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.
For Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, he has taught a course in contemporary Jewish fiction. Since WWII, Jewish writers have not only come into their own, but have dominated the landscape of world fiction, as the course tries to demonstrate. Readings include Isaac Babel, I.B.Singer, Ida Fink, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Teodor Borowski, A.B.Yehoshua, Amos Oz, Bernard Malamud, Nadine Gordimer, and others.
During the 1999 - 2000 academic year, Professor Lelchuk was the Otto Salgo Chair in American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest.
Merle Nacht is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Merle Nacht include Travel Memory Book (American Girl Backpack Books), Pages and Pockets: A Portfolio for Secrets and Stuff (American Girl Librar y), Mummy Took Cooking Lessons and Other Poems, and On Home Ground.
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On Home Ground, (Brooklyn Revisited),
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A revisit to Brooklyn during the days of Jackie Robinson, PeeWee Reese and the Brooklyn Dodgers makes this book enjoyable for adolescents as well as adults. It made the readers relate to the realistic tense situations between a young boy and his immigrant father living together in a very different world then the one the father left behind. The new world is Brooklyn and anyone who has experienced Brooklyn, young or old will enjoy this book. My ten year old, baseball loving son enjoyed the story, the flavor of Brooklyn in the days of Ebbets fields, the chemistry between the young boy and his war veteran friend and the baseball scenes which bring to life The Brooklyn Dodgers.
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On Home Ground, (Brooklyn Revisited),
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This review is from: On Home Ground (Hardcover)
A revisit to Brooklyn during the days of Jackie Robinson, PeeWee Reese and the Brooklyn Dodgers makes this book enjoyable for adolescents as well as adults. It made the readers relate to the realistic tense situations between a young boy and his immigrant father living together in a very different world then the one the father left behind. The new world is Brooklyn and anyone who has experienced Brooklyn, young or old will enjoy this book. My ten year old, baseball loving son enjoyed the story, the flavor of Brooklyn in the days of Ebbets fields, the chemistry between the young boy and his war veteran friend and the baseball scenes which bring to life The Brooklyn Dodgers.
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