The Art of Fielding
(Sprache: Englisch)
A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice.
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A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice.
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A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. 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. It's a warm-hearted, expansive book, one whose intelligence runs as deep as its emotion, and very rarely does one encounter characters that one cares about as much as Henry Skrimshander, Owen Glass, Mike Schwartz, and Guert and Pella Affenlight.
Autoren-Porträt von Chad Harbach
Chad Harbach, geboren 1975, wuchs in Wisconsin auf und studierte in Harvard und an der University of Virginia. Er ist Redakteur der literarischen Zeitschrift n+1 , die er gemeinsam mit Keith Gessen, Mark Greif und Benjamin Kunkel gründete. Chad Harbach lebt in Virginia.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chad Harbach
- 2011, 512 Seiten, Maße: 15,2 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins UK
- ISBN-10: 0007418698
- ISBN-13: 9780007418695
Sprache:
Englisch
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'Reading The Art of Fielding is like watching a hugely gifted young shortstop: you keep waiting for the errors, but there are no errors. First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom., Jonathan Franzen
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