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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I loved this and I'm not sure why I waited so long to read it - it's been on my TBR since it was published. A story about a college baseball player and his team sounds dull but this is so much more. Friendship, love, family, expectations, pressure. is there more covered? Probably. I felt completely invested in all the characters and wish I could pay a campus visit to Westish. They did lose me a little bit very close to the end with one ridiculous but sentimental scene but for me the payoff there was pretty good. Now I'm trying to decide if I want to read Moby Dick, an important book inside the book. In diesem Buch geht es um fünf Menschen, die sich am Westish College in Wisconsin begegnen und eine Baseball-Saison: Henry Skrimshander ist ein begnadeter Baseballspieler, der durch sein Talent aus der Provinz auf dieses College geholt wird. Mike Schwartz ist sein Mentor, ein mittelloser Student, der für den Sport lebt. Owen Dunne ist Henrys schwuler und intellektueller Mitbewohner. Guert Affenlight ist der Rektor des Colleges, der sich in Owen verliebt. Seine 23-jährige Tochter Pella kehrt nach gescheiterter Ehe nach Westish zurück. Ich mochte das Buch, aber in die allgegenwärtigen Lobeshymnen konnte ich nicht einstimmen. Das liegt vielleicht auch daran, dass ich Baseball nicht verstehe, auch wenn ich schon ein Spiel gesehen habe. Die Personen sind gut gemacht und ihre Beziehungen untereinander interessant. Insgesamt hätte etwas Straffung dem Buch dennoch nicht geschadet. I have practically no interest in baseball, so this is not one of my favorites right from the start. This novel is about a guy, Henry, who has a natural talent for fielding balls, and seems destined for fame and fortune once he gets through college and gets signed with a major league team. But, after his first error throw ever in a game results in severe injury for his friend and roommate Owen, his skill becomes tainted and he may never really regain his earlier perfect baseball ability. So, he collapses into a mire of self-pity, and eventually manages to start putting his life back on some sort of track. I could certainly relate to how disorienting it is when your life's plans suddenly are over and your whole sense of self comes into question. So, from that perspective I liked this book. The secondary story about Guelf Affenlight, the college president who falls in love with a male student, the one injured by Henry's ball, adds in a homosexual element, and another angle about how people redefine themselves, and how hard it can be for people to change without running into serious societal obstacles. Pella, Affenlight's daughter, is also going through changes, but hers are within the scope of socially accepted personal development, so she finds the support and resources to get on track with her life even though her father's changed sexual identity had disastrous consequences. I thoroughly enjoyed 'The Art of Fielding'. While baseball is a central theme, this is certainly not a book about the sport. Rather, we are taken inside the lives and minds of five characters, and the development of them and and the story is exquisite. From love affairs to deep depression, Chad Harbach covers it all. Is it a redemption story? Sort of, maybe. One thing (and sorry about the spoiler here) at no stage in reading this did I expect to read about grave robbery.
The book is a throwback to a bygone, if not universally mourned era when charismatic white male novelists wrote intelligent bestsellers, and one senses that it is intentionally so....It is a work of stridently unexperimental psychological realism, featuring likeable characters with cute nicknames, dramatic events that change people’s lives, easily identified and fully consummated narrative arcs, transparently conversational prose and big, obvious metaphors. Wie aan dit boek begint, wordt een wereld binnengezogen waaruit je niet meer kunt en wilt ontsnappen. Naast honkbalroman, bildungsroman en campusroman zou je De kunst van het veldspel ook een Melvilleroman kunnen noemen. Zonder dat het hinderlijk wordt (zelfs als je ze allemaal zou opmerken, wat geen lezer zich verbeelde), stikt het boek van de verwijzingen naar met name Moby Dick. Dit klinkt als gewichtigdoenerij, maar maakt gewoon deel uit van de spitsvondige speelsheid die dit hele boek kenmerkt. De kunst van het veldspel is een jongensboek voor jongens en meisjes van alle leeftijden. Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding cross-breeds two genres with limited gene pools, the baseball novel and the campus novel, and comes up with a vigorous hybrid, entertaining and engrossing, though almost absurdly high-minded. It's easy to see why The Art of Fielding has done so well: it is charming, warm-hearted, addictive, and very hard to dislike.... The Art of Fielding feels like a novel from another, more innocent age. It revels in themes that have been unfashionable in literary fiction for generations – team spirit, male friendship, making the best of one's talents. In its optimism and lack of cynicism, in its celebration of the wide open spaces of the Midwest and its confidence in the deep inner meaning of baseball, it is a big American novel of the old school.... ...it creates a richly peopled world that you can fully inhabit in your mind, and to which you long to return when you put it down. Centering on an imaginary northern Wisconsin private school and its baseball star-in-the-making Henry Skrimshander, Harbach sidesteps much of the familiar mythmaking that can go along with spinning the American pastime into literature and instead delivers a rich, warmly human story that resonates even if you have no idea what a 6-4-3 double play looks like. Pertenece a las series editorialesPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Un acontecimiento fortuito es el nexo que une las vidas de cinco personas. Henry Skrimshander, un talentoso jugador de beisbol, llega a una pequena universidad con una mision: rescatar al equipo de otra desastrosa temporada. La buena estrella del joven deslumbra a los entendidos y lleva al equipo a los mejores resultados de su historia. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I liked the writing around Henry's struggles with throwing the ball after hitting Owen. But the last pages and ending seemed off. ( )