![]() ![]() 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.Ĭhad Harbach's The Art of Fielding is 2/3rds strong but maybe 100 pages too long. ![]() ![]() In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life.Īs the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. ![]()
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