Sport--Louise Fitzhugh

I remember thinking this book was hysterical as a kid. Really broad, verbal comedy. But after my quickie read through, I'm struck by the darkness and sadness of poor Sport, who has accepted his weird lot and only reacts when it's threatened by his mother's plan to kidnap him and imprison him in the Plaza (I told you it was funny!) to get ahold of his inheritance. I think that it was his flood of relief to hand over his ledgers to his new stepmother (who he has met a week before?!!) and to abandon at least some of the parenting of his father that got to me.