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Grandfather DeWhit, a Dionysian Scattergood Baines, is not only the commu nity's pillar but its lingam as well. Hints of his sexual reconnaissance on both sides of the color line are rampant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home Games | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

Grandmother De specializes in winding her 15 clocks and never let ting Egan's mother forget that she mar ried beneath herself. The truth is that outside the hermetic DeWhit family, Egan Fletcher Sr. is a famous professional baseball player. He plays some unspecified position with a club known as the Washington Teutonians, but he is also an overpowering utility father figure. Returning for a stay with his family, he reignites his wife's banked passions and her family's recriminations. Grandfather dies, Egan's sister runs off with the first boy to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home Games | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

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