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| The Art of Fielding: A Novel |  | Author: Chad Harbach
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $25.99
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Sales Rank: 1,351
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 528
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 1.8 x 9.8
ISBN: 0316126691
EAN: 9780316126694
ASIN: 0316126691
Publication Date: September 7, 2011
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Product Description
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.brbrHenry'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.brbrAs 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, iThe Art of Fielding /iis an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others.
Amazon.com Review
pstrongAmazon Best Books of the Month, September 2011/strong: Though iThe Art of Fielding/i is his fiction debut, Chad Harbach writes with the self-assurance of a seasoned novelist. He exercises a masterful precision over the language and pacing of his narrative, and in some 500 pages, there's rarely a word that feels out of place. The title is a reference to baseball, but Harbach's concern with sports is more than just a cheap metaphor. iThe Art of Fielding/i explores relationships--between friends, family, and lovers--and the unpredictable forces that complicate them. There's an unintended affair, a post-graduate plan derailed by rejection letters, a marriage dissolved by honesty, and at the center of the book, the single baseball error that sets all of these events into motion. iThe Art of Fielding/i is somehow both confident and intimate, simple yet deeply moving. Harbach has penned one of the year's finest works of fiction.i--Kevin Nguyen/i/p
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