The Art Of Fielding
CHAD HARBACH
Harper Collins, Literature
Paperback, Ed: 01, 9780007374458
AUD $10.86 ex, AUD $11.95 inc
Out of stock at: 17 Jun 2013 19:00
NOW IN B FORMAT. In The Art of Fielding, we see sport played in its purest form: by young men who know that their four years on the baseball diamond at Westish College, "a little school in the crook of the thumb of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin," are all they have left. Only their preternaturally gifted fielder, Henry Skrimshander, seems to have the chance to keep his dream - and theirs, vicariously - alive, until a routine throw goes astray. Five lives brought together at Westish - three players; the college's president and his prodigal daughter - are forever changed by Henry's single error. The novel that unfolds thereafter is many things: a masterpiece of what James Wood would call "free indirect style," but what a lover of fiction would simply recognize as great storytelling; a campus novel as good as any to spring from that well-tilled soil; and a beautiful and trenchant and veracious depiction of sport.
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