Collins Modern Classics: The Art of Fielding

Collins Modern Classics: The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 528pg
26 May 2022 UK
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9780008553791
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Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his depth, has a talent for baseball that borders on genius. But sometimes it seems that his only friend is big Mike Schwartz - who champions the talents of others, at the expense of his own. And Owen, Henry' s clever, charismatic, gay roommate, who has a secret that could put his brilliant college career in jeopardy. Pella, the 23-year-old daughter of the college president, has returned home after a failed marriage, determined to get her life in order. Only to find her father, a confirmed bachelor, has fallen desperately in love himself. Then, one fateful day, Henry makes a mistake - misthrows a ball. And everything changes. . .

Art of Fielding, The
Bagthorpe Saga #01: Ordinary Jack, The
Bagthorpe Saga #02: Absolute Zero, The
Empire of the Sun
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fermat's Last Theorem
Giver Quartet #01: Giver, The
God of Small Things, The
Golden Notebook, The
Harriet the Spy
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Homecoming
Mary Poppins (New Edition)
Middlesex
ilm Tie-In Edition)

' It' s left a little hole in my life the way a really good book will' Jonathan Franzen' This is an outstanding novel about sport and, in Henry Skrimshander, Harbach has created a character who will keep sports psychologists in conversation for years' Mike Atherton, The Times' Charming, warm-hearted, addictive' Guardian' Once started The Art of Fielding is a book you want to read and read. It is deliciously old-fashioned: it simply gets on with the business of creating vivid, layered characters and telling a good, engrossing story' Daily Telegraph' An intricate, poised, tingling debut . . . leaves you longing, lingering, and a baseball convert long after the last page' Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger' s Wife, winner of the Orange Prize' Chad Harbach has hit a game-ender with The Art of Fielding. It' s pure fun, easy to read, as if the other Fielding had a hand in it - as if Tom Jones were about baseball and college life' John IrvingSteeped in American tradition, this moving debut hits a home run. . . What in less skilled hands might have been a light comic novel evolves into a debut of great warmth and weight. . . This is a charming, moving and slyly profound novel. You might even say Chad Harbach hit this one out of the park' Sunday Telegraph' Every bit as good as billed. A big, beautiful blowout of a book, sure and generous, it reads like a throwback to the mid-20th century, when American literature was in its pomp. . . an exceptional debut' Guardian' A terrifically engaging novel. . . you will be rewarded by a page-turning, beguiling and wonderfully warm-hearted read' . Sunday Times' The baseball sequences are terrific. . . Harbach captures precisely the strangely becalmed grace that sets sportsmen like Henry apart. . . Very good indeed' Independent
Chad Harbach grew up in Wisconsin, and graduated from Harvard in 1997. He was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where he received an MFA in Fiction in 2004. He is the author of the much acclaimed 2011 novel The Art of Fielding. He is currently the Executive Editor of n+1, which he co-founded, and lives in Brooklyn.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008553791
Published: 26 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 33mm
Weight: 370g
Pages: 528

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