{"product_id":"9780816640850","title":"Sport: A Novel","description":"Sad and funny, warm and wise, the story of a boy's search for order and belonging in a world where the rules keep changing.\u003cp\u003e  Sport is a wise and wily kid with a passion for baseball. His world is suddenly, inexplicably shaken when his mother is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and his hard-drinking father abandons them.The family quickly descends into awkward suburban poverty. Sport responds by attempting to fix the broken machinery of the household—the unpaid bills, the deadbeat dad, the futility of his beloved Minnesota Twins. In his search for stability, Sport befriends his kind-hearted baseball coach, who offers him what appears to be a way out. Gradually, he comes to see the wisdom in his mother's advice to swing from the heels and hit away, to make his mistakes loud and large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A novel of graceful insight, Sport is about the world as we wish it could be—and as it is. Sport is about learning to love the broken world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Mick Cochrane is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota. His first novel was \u003ci\u003eFlesh Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches English literature and writing at Canisius College in Buffalo, NewYork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50176261783792,"sku":"9780816640850","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780816640850","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}