A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in
this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball, praised
by the New York Times as "wonderful...a novel that is every bit as
entertaining as it is affecting." Named one of the year's best
books by the New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, Los Angeles
Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science
Monitor, Bloomberg, Kansas City Star, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and
Time Out New York. 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. "First novels this complete and consuming come along very,
very seldom." --Jonathan Franzen
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