The art of fielding follows four different characters as they play baseball, pop pain pills, and find love at westish collegea fictional college in the real state of wisconsin. Chances are if you liked the art of fielding, youll find something similar in harbachs magazine. Sep 20, 2011 the art of fielding, chad harbachs first novel, is a book about baseball in the way that mobydick is a book about whalingit is and it isnt. A novel by harbach, chad 2011 audio cd online books in format pdf.
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Chad harbachs book the art of fielding is not only a wonderful baseball novel it zooms immediately into the pantheon of classics, alongside the natural by bernard malamud and the southpaw by mark harris but its also a magical, melancholy story about friendship and coming of age that marks the debut of an. 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 commitmentto oneself and to others. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the art of fielding. Henry skrimshander seems bound for nowhere special, and fast.
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On the wisconsin campus of westish college, where most of the art of fielding is set, a statue of herman melville peers out over a lake. Harbach has the rare abilities to write with earnest, deeply felt emotion without ever veering into sentimentality, and to create quirky, vulnerable and fully imagined characters who instantly take up residence in our own hearts and minds. The novel tells the story of henry skrimshander, a gifted young shortstop playing at a small. A novel by chad harbach and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Oct 05, 20 none of this is chad harbachs fault and, to his credit, for substantial portions of the art of fielding back bay books, 544 pages he is astute enough to leaven this selfconscious literary registerwhich he embraces entirelywith humor. Sep 01, 2011 chad harbachs book the art of fielding is not only a wonderful baseball novel it zooms immediately into the pantheon of classics mr. The art of fielding is a 2011 novel by american author chad harbach.
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