The Art of Fielding
A Novel
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Baker & Taylor
A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate and the president's daughter. 75,000 first printing.
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A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate and the president's daughter. 75,000 first printing.
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Baker & Taylor
A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate and the president's daughter. 75,000 first printing.
Hachette Book Group
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.
Baker
& Taylor
A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate, and the president's daughter.
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A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate and the president's daughter. 75,000 first printing.
Hachette Book Group
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.
Baker
& Taylor
A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate, and the president's daughter.
« Less
Imprint:
New York - Little, Brown
Pages:
512
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9780316126694, 0316126691
Language:
English
Statement of responsibility:
Chad Harbach
Characteristics:
512 p. ;,25 cm.
Author (Original Script):
Harbach, Chad
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Add a CommentWonderful read about self-discovery and change. Identities are challenged with new experiences and perspectives. Being open to these other possibilities brings about some incredible opportunities.
One of the library's Book Club Books.
Considering this was a debut novel, I felt it was exceptionally well written. In addition the ending was fantastic. I really enjoyed the development of the all the characters and I thought the book moved along well.
Who would think a novel about a champion baseball player would resonate outside the U.S. This one, a surprise bestseller, has a smallish cast of characters led by a young champion shortstop at a small liberal arts college in Wisconsin. You don’t even have to know much about baseball to enjoy it. Best reads of 2012: Philip Tew, Selection and Access Librarian, shares his top novels of 2012.
Great book. Not as much about baseball as the title implies. It's more about life at a small college in a small Midwestern town. If you attended a similar school, as I did (as well as being a shortstop at said school), you will easily relate to the characters and situations. You will say to yourself as you read, "Yep, I knew that guy." Very enjoyable.
About halfway through I realized I was enjoying it in the same way as "Straight Man" by Russo.
clever, readable prose, but 2 dimensional characters + contrived dialogue and situations = what's all the fuss about?
I know nothing about baseball, other than the poem 'Casey at the Bat', but I loved this book anyways. Just what a summer-read novel should be...excellent characters, engaging plot, angstful relationships.
A few too many cliches - but an enjoyable beach read.
A little pruning would've helped but an addictive read.