Description
Very Good dust jacket illustrated with boy reading the paper as dad looks on. Rub wear on front cover, 1″ chip to upper right corner on front, slight stain to top of spine, price clipped, a mylar dust jacket has been added. Very Good+ condition binding is tan cloth over boards, black lettering. Black-and-white illustrations within by Rau Cruz. The “1” is present on the number line on copyright page which is the designation of first edition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.2″ tall x 5.9″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
With verve and humor, this engaging novel explores the conflicts that arise in a family when father and son have different interests. Raised in Europe, Mr. Feldman has no feeling for certain American basics like baseball and pumpkin pie, while his son Ezra is an ardent fan of both. Ezra’s team is the New York Mets, his specialty baseball history. His scholarly father, however, thinks Ezra is wasting his mind and, to Ezra’s disappointment gives him an electronic chess game for his tenth birthday. Its only virtue is that at least it doesn’t criticize him as it beats him. Matters come to a head when Ezra neglects to run an important errand for his father because of a baseball game and then the two must make a weekend trip to Albany together.
How that trip miraculously includes a visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame and how Ezra, using the chess game, works out a way he and his father can compromise wind up an ingratiating story that deals with serious concerns in a deceptively light way.
