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Chad Harbach The Art of Fielding (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Art of Fielding : a Novel
- Publication Name
- The Art of Fielding
- Title
- The Art of Fielding
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0316126675
- EAN
- 9780316126670
- ISBN
- 9780316126670
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 01/05/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 17.1 Oz
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Topic
- Psychological, Literary, Coming of Age, Romance / Sports, Sports
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball, praised by the New York Times as "wonderful...a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting." Named one of the year's best books by the New York Times , NPR, The New Yorker , Los Angeles Times , Washington Post , Wall Street Journal , Christian Science Monitor , Bloomberg , Kansas City Star , Richmond Times-Dispatch , and Time Out New York . 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. "First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom." --Jonathan Franzen
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316126675
ISBN-13
9780316126670
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109120267
Product Key Features
Book Title
Art of Fielding : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary, Coming of Age, Romance / Sports, Sports
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
17.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3608.A72513a87
Reviews
The Novel of theMonthSeasonYear.... Riveting...[ The Art of Fielding ] emerges fully formed, a world unto itself. Harbach writes with a tender, egoless virtuosity...There's just something so easy and riveting about the way this book's layers unfold; not since Lonesome Dove have I been so sorry to let a group of characters go., "Spectacular! The Art of Fielding is a wise, warm-hearted, self-assured, and fiercely readable debut, which heralds the coming of a young American writer to watch....You won't want this book to end."-- Jonathan Evison, "One of those rare novels - like Michael Chabon's Mysteries of Pittsburgh or John Irving's The World According to Garp - that seems to appear out of nowhere, and then dazzles and bewitches and inspires, until you nearly lose your breath from the enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as the unexpected news-blast that the novel is very much alive and well."-- James Patterson, When the best shortstop alive sounds believably like a Tibetan lama, and when a thrown ball striking a shovel head at dawn leaves your own head ringing with certainty that truth and friendship have triumphed, you know you're in the hands of a writer you can trust., "Not being a huge fan of the national pastime, I found it easy to resist the urge to pick up this novel, but once I did I gave myself over completely and scarcely paused for meals. Like all successful works of literature The Art of Fielding is an autonomous universe, much like the one we inhabit although somehow more vivid."-- Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and How It Ended, Beautifully made, surpassingly human, and quietly subversive, The Art of Fielding restores one's faith in the national pastime--i.e., reading and writing novels., "Chad Harbach has hit a game-ender with The Art of Fielding . It's pure fun, easy to read, as if the other Fielding had a hand in it--as if Tom Jones were about baseball and college life."-- John Irving, An intricate, poised, tingling debut. Harbach's muscular prose breathes new life into the American past-time, recasts the personal worlds that orbit around it, and leaves you longing, lingering, and a baseball convert long after the last page., Spectacular! The Art of Fielding is a wise, warm-hearted, self-assured, and fiercely readable debut, which heralds the coming of a young American writer to watch....You won't want this book to end., The Novel of theMonthSeason Year.... Riveting...[ The Art of Fielding ] emerges fully formed, a world unto itself. Harbach writes with a tender, egoless virtuosity...There's just something so easy and riveting about the way this book's layers unfold; not since Lonesome Dove have I been so sorry to let a group of characters go., "When the best shortstop alive sounds believably like a Tibetan lama, and when a thrown ball striking a shovel head at dawn leaves your own head ringing with certainty that truth and friendship have triumphed, you know you're in the hands of a writer you can trust."-- David James Duncan, Beautifully made, surpassingly human, and quietly subversive,The Art of Fielding restores one's faith in the national pastime--i.e., reading and writing novels., "Beautifully made, surpassingly human, and quietly subversive, The Art of Fielding restores one's faith in the national pastime--i.e., reading and writing novels."-- Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision, One of those rare novels - like Michael Chabon's Mysteries of Pittsburgh or John Irving's The World According to Garp - that seems to appear out of nowhere, and then dazzles and bewitches and inspires, until you nearly lose your breath from the enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as the unexpected news-blast that the novel is very much alive and well., "An intricate, poised, tingling debut. Harbach's muscular prose breathes new life into the American past-time, recasts the personal worlds that orbit around it, and leaves you longing, lingering, and a baseball convert long after the last page."-- Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife, Not being a huge fan of the national pastime, I found it easy to resist the urge to pick up this novel, but once I did I gave myself over completely and scarcely paused for meals. Like all successful works of literature The Art of Fielding is an autonomous universe, much like the one we inhabit although somehow more vivid., The Novel of the Month Season Year.... Riveting...[ The Art of Fielding ] emerges fully formed, a world unto itself. Harbach writes with a tender, egoless virtuosity...There's just something so easy and riveting about the way this book's layers unfold; not since Lonesome Dove have I been so sorry to let a group of characters go., "The Novel of the MonthSeason Year.... Riveting...[ The Art of Fielding ] emerges fully formed, a world unto itself. Harbach writes with a tender, egoless virtuosity...There's just something so easy and riveting about the way this book's layers unfold; not since Lonesome Dove have I been so sorry to let a group of characters go."-- Andres Corsello, GQ, Chad Harbach has hit a game-ender with The Art of Fielding . It's pure fun, easy to read, as if the other Fielding had a hand in it--as if Tom Jones were about baseball and college life., Chad Harbach has hit a game-ender with The Art of Fielding . It's pure fun, easy to read, as if the other Fielding had a hand in it - as if Tom Jones were about baseball and college life.
Lccn
2011-014912
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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