{"product_id":"the-art-of-fielding-chad-harbach-collins-modern-classics-9780008553791","title":"The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach Collins Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroducing 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘It's left a little hole in my life the way a really good book will’ Jonathan Franzen\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘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, \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Charming, warm-hearted, addictive’ \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Once started \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Fielding\u003c\/em\u003e 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’ \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘An intricate, poised, tingling debut … leaves you longing, lingering, and a baseball convert long after the last page’ Téa Obreht, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Tiger’s Wife\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Orange Prize\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Chad Harbach has hit a game-ender with \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Fielding\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 Irving\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003eSteeped 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’ \u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘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’ \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A terrifically engaging novel… you will be rewarded by a page-turning, beguiling and wonderfully warm-hearted read’. \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘The baseball sequences are terrific… Harbach captures precisely the strangely becalmed grace that sets sportsmen like Henry apart…Very good indeed’ \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399562961239,"sku":"9780008553791","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-art-of-fielding-chad-harbach-collins-modern-classics-9780008553791","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}