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The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

Hardcover | Pages: 512 pages

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Title	:	The Art of Fielding
Author	:	Chad Harbach
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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.

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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

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People love to talk about the "great" books that aren't good reads. There's also the crap that people call "beach reads" but gobble up without taking seriously. But The Art of Fielding falls under a third category: A book I didn't like so much that I wanted to keep reading it.I wanted to like it, I did. I like books that take place in college. I like baseball. I like baseball metaphors even more. but it felt like a book that took 10 years to write and not in a good way. Characters that I imagine

Crash Davis knew that an important part of Ebby Calvin Nuke LaLooshs preparation for the big leagues was to teach him the standard clichés. Baseball, and sports in general, are full of them. Theres a favorite that certain sports books seem to evoke, too: You dont have to be a fan of the game to like this. Since I am a fan, I cant speak with any authority for those who are not, but my guess is that for The Art of Fielding, its at least partially true. I can be more certain if youre a fan of

I loved this book! (I suppose it's appropriate that I start off my review like a fan.)While reading it, I couldn't help but reflect upon and compare this novel to The Marriage Plot. Both are about college-aged kids (though set in different decades); mental illness is an element in both; and while the love triangle in the Jeffrey Eugenides novel is paramount, the one here (which is sort of (though not really) a love triangle) is more subtle and more realistically portrayed. (I almost want to say

One of the best books I read last year. Dont be put off by the sports content; I could not possibly be less interested in competitive sports. Really, the baseball theme is neither here nor there.* Rather, The Art of Fielding is about male relationships a core of homosocial and homoerotic friendships, with delicious reference to the works of Herman Melville and about coping with failure.The character names may be a bit preposterous, and the main character rather thin and forgettable in the end,

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 other

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

As a HUGE fan of the game, I really enjoyed this baseball themed novel centering around Henry Skrimshander.....his glove named Zero and his desire to be the best.....to someday play Shortstop for the STL CARDINALS.....But this story surprised me.....there's so much more to it than just baseball.....Without divulging any secrets, I'll just say.....the novel intertwines friendships and relationships among five flawed characters who struggle to find their way in life and follow their dreams.Love