![]() ![]() “Baseball, in its quiet way, was an extravagantly harrowing game. “Reading aloud was already borderline intimate, one voice, two pairs of ears, well-shaped words…”Īt first this book seems a bit of a trick – it ambles along, albeit beautifully written ambling – “Pella woke into the charcoal hum of predawn.”īut with the sporting theme, Harbach is given licence to add lots of climatic baseball-related plot points. ![]() Harbach puts it all on paper in an unlikely combination of college campus story meets baseball, bromances and books. I like baseball – it’s obviously not a major spectator sport in Australia but I think if I lived in the US, I’d be a fan (Yankees all the way). I enjoy the theatre of baseball – batters winding up, umpires yelling “Strrrriiiiiiike!”, and of course the glory of a home run. Being a baseball fan is not a pre-requisite for enjoying The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. ![]()
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