A Game of Catch

by Richard Wilbur

Full-color watercolor paintings highlight an insightful story about neighborhood boys and baseball, first published in The New Yorker, by the 1987 Poet Laureate of the United States. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152305637
• ISBN13: 9780152305635
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 29 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

The ambiguity and paradox of adolescent relationships

A brilliant short story of the ambiguity and paradox of adolescent relationships. Although ostensibly describing a situation as mundane as two boys consumed in a mindless game of catch when a third, gloveless boy appears, the depth of character of all three boys is richly and adeptly developed . Charater motivation is as complex and confusing to each of the three boys portrayed as it is for the reader. This brief story displays powerful insight into human behavior in breathtakingly few words