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So while i can recommend the novel, with reservations, i cant make the four star leap. The novel was nominated for the guardian first book award, and was featured on several yearend lists. 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. Chad harbach has hit a gameender with the art of fielding. The art of fielding by chad harbach lake michigan on a cool morning, a wellworn copy of mobydick, a lazily draped scarf worn to a beloved college classthis is pumpkin spice latte territory. It centers on the fortunes of shortstop henry skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional westish college harpooners. Chad harbachs the art of fielding is 23rds strong but maybe 100 pages too long. 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. Though the art of fielding is his fiction debut, chad harbach writes with the selfassurance of a seasoned novelist. The art of fielding, by chad harbach national post.
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Im sure little browns marketing and publicity departments have been doing midfield contortions to sell chad harbachs the art of. The art of fielding by chad harbach the 858th greatest. I was skeptical at first about enjoying a book about baseball. Read the art of fielding a novel by chad harbach available from rakuten kobo. Chad harbachs highly entertaining, intermittently excellent, unapologetically masculine the art of fielding is a telephone directory of a novel about scrappy underdogs trying to win it all the book is a throwback to a bygone, if not universally mourned era when charismatic white male novelists wrote intelligent bestsellers, and one senses that it is intentionally so. The art of fielding by chad harbach in djvu, epub, fb2 download ebook. The art of fielding is a coming of age novel set at a small college, featuring a star shortstop henry who questions his entire identity after one horrible throw, his selfless team mentor, his gay teammate, and the president of the school and his daughter. Harbachs muscular prose breathes new life into the american pasttime, recasts the personal worlds that orbit around it, and leaves you. Discussion guide for the art of fielding, by chad harbach. The characters are appealing and and clearly individual and one soon becomes concerned for each one of them.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the art of fielding. Available on kindle ebook and can be read on any device with the free kindle app. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. The art of fielding has 14 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. I only downloaded a sample of this book on my kindle because i had heard such good things about it that i decided that i should at least give it a sample.
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