Chad Harbach

A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this award-nominated tale about love, life, and baseball. At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. 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.

A Novel

The Art of Fielding

Bringing together established writers, MFA professors and students, and New York editors and agents, this must-read for aspiring writers and anyone interested in the present and future of American letters reveals the ways writers make--or fail to make--a living. Original. 15,000 first printing.

The Two Cultures of American Fiction

MFA Vs NYC

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Die Kunst des Feldspiels

L'arte di vivere in difesa

Een jonge veelbelovende kortestop in het honkbalteam van zijn universiteit blokkeert in het veld, waardoor de levens van hemzelf en de mensen in zijn nabije omgeving op hun kop komen te staan.

De kunst van het veldspel / druk 1

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A taster of some of the brightest and best new novels from the rising stars of fiction.

Fiction4theFuture: Free New Fiction

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