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| Original Title: | The Art of Fielding |
| ISBN: | 0316126691 (ISBN13: 9780316126694) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Henry Skrimshander, Mike Schwartz, Owen Dunne, Guert Affenlight, Pella Affenlight |
| Setting: | Westish, Wisconsin(United States) Wisconsin(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2012), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award Nominee (2012), Library of Virginia Literary Award Nominee for Fiction (finalist) (2012), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (0), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2012) Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2011), Bottari Lattes Grinzane Nominee, Friends of American Writers Book of the Year, Midwest Booksellers Choice Award |
Chad Harbach
Hardcover | Pages: 512 pages Rating: 4 | 100677 Users | 10207 Reviews
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At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life.
As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment - to oneself and to others.
List About Books The Art of Fielding
| Title | : | The Art of Fielding |
| Author | : | Chad Harbach |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 512 pages |
| Published | : | September 7th 2011 by Little, Brown and Company |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Sports. Baseball. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Audiobook. Adult Fiction |
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Ratings: 4 From 100677 Users | 10207 ReviewsWrite-Up About Books The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding is 2/3rds strong but maybe 100 pages too long. You know that weird paradox you feel when you like a book but kind of wish it was over? I felt that around, oh, page 350 of The Art of Fielding. So while I can recommend the novel, with reservations, I can't make the four star leap.The storyline revolves around five characters and readers shouldn't be misled into thinking, as the inside cover description seems to imply, that Henry is the star and the four otherI have stood there, with my knees bent, on the balls of my feet. I have watched the signs and where the catcher sets up. I have known with some sense of probability if my pitcher can throw the ball where the glove is set. I have watched the hitter's swing, listened to the sound. I have intuited. So I have moved, left or right, back or in, often before the ball leaves the bat, before life, if you will, comes my way. Another example of how Life, as the columnist Thomas Boswell once mused, imitates
Man, I really didn't want to like this book. And here, quickly, are the reasons why: Number 1) Pure jealousy. Harbach got paid like a bajillion dollars for his very first novel. I was paid slightly less than that. Okay, a lot less than that. Number 2) I don't like n+1 magazine, of which he is the co-founder. I find it pretentious and boring. I would honestly rather read Cat Fancy.Number 3) Harbach wrote an article about MFA vs. New York writers that was, in a word, uber-douchy. And anyone who
3.5 ⭐I liked Chad Harbach's vaunted debut novel 'The Art of Fielding'. It's a character driven, baseball-metaphor-for-life piece, set at a small college in northern Wisconsin. If you're not a baseball fan though, don't let that dissuade you from picking this one up.There's much to like. Harbach has a smooth, easy style thats very engaging, his characters are well-drawn and you find yourself almost cheering for this novel to be great. Jonathan Franzen described it as' perfect'Its not perfect of
*mild spoilers*100 pages in and the author has already *twice* withheld information from the reader which would be apparent to the character. Is there a name for this?The first time it's dialogue overheard by a character, dialogue which the reader is meant to mistake for sex when in fact it's two people lifting weights. But the character is outside the weight room, so there's no chance that /he/ would think it's sexual.The next occurrence: one character is straining for a glimpse of another,
Ive been in a bit of a book slump. I started and stopped three books before beginning this one. I picked it up solely because it is so different from what I have been reading. Score.It took a little while for me to become engaged because of the slump, but things soon clicked. The main protagonist, Henry Skrimshander, is a young baseball player and college student. His bible, a beat up book called The Art of Fielding, is full of philosophy and practical pointers on how to become the best player
I Absolutely loved this book! It was 'The Perfect Novel'. About Baseball: There 'is' baseball in this book. So, for those people who really do not like baseball 'at all' ---(but are still open to reading this GEM of a story) ---you might surprise yourself and expand your interest in the game itself. (at least grow to respect the game -the players -and the *Art-of-being-on-a-Team*). What else is this book about 'besides' Baseball? Life--friendships--all types of relationships --(male bonding at
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