The Art of Fielding Mike Makes Henry Watch Game Film
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| Writer | Chad Harbach |
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| Cover artist | Keith Hayes |
| Land | Us |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Footling, Brownish and Company |
| Publication date | September 2011 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 544 |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-12667-0 |
The Fine art of Fielding is a 2011 novel by American author Chad Harbach. Information technology centers on the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional Westish College Harpooners.[1] The novel was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and was featured on several year-end lists.[2]
Plot [edit]
Henry Skrimshander begins the novel every bit a 17-year-quondam playing on a Legion baseball game team in Lankton, S Dakota. Although physically brusk and not muscular, Henry has an unusual gift for fielding, and excels at the demanding position of shortstop. After playing a game against a team from Chicago, Westish College student Mike Schwartz sees Henry play and recruits him to attend Westish and improve the baseball team. Past his inferior year, Henry is excelling equally a player (especially on defense) and is drawing significant attention from Major League Baseball scouts.
Westish College is a small liberal arts college located in northeastern Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Michigan. The school has a particular attachment to author Herman Melville, e'er since a Westish student named Guert Affenlight discovered that Melville had visited Westish as role of a lecturing tour in the 1880s. The school re-branded itself around the Melville visit, erecting a statue of the writer and renaming its sports teams as the Harpooners. Later on publishing a well-received book and spending many years as a professor at Harvard, Affenlight returns to his alma mater as president of the college. His estranged daughter Pella comes to alive with him during Henry's junior year, after leaving her architect hubby and life in San Francisco.
Much of the novel focuses around members of the Westish baseball team, during their best flavor in the history of the college. Every bit Henry approaches the NCAA record for about consecutive errorless games by a shortstop (held past his baseball hero, Aparicio Rodriguez), a throw of his goes awry and hits his roommate, right fielder Owen Dunne, who is sitting in the dugout at the fourth dimension. Owen is hospitalized by the injury, an incident which shakes Henry's confidence deeply. His fielding quickly deteriorates to the point where he can no longer consummate a simple throw to get-go base. Examples given in the novel of Major League players with similar situations are Steve Blass, Mackey Sasser, Marker Wohlers, Chuck Knoblauch, Steve Sax, and Rick Ankiel.
Off the baseball field, the novel explores the relationships betwixt several pairs of people. This includes romantic relationships between Mike Schwartz and Pella Affenlight, every bit well as one between Owen Dunne and Guert Affenlight. The mentor-student relationship between Schwartz and Henry also comes to the forefront, as each examines their hopes for the time to come and the extent to which it rests on their baseball ability.
Reception [edit]
A great deal of publicity focused on the story of the book'southward publication, equally Harbach worked on the novel, his debut, for x years, subsequently receiving an advance of more than $650,000 after a behest state of war for the publishing rights.[3]
The book was well received, making The New York Times bestseller list and was named one of the ten best books of 2011 from the newspaper. Amazon.com named it one of Best Books for the Calendar month of September 2011 and subsequently named information technology the Best Book of that twelvemonth. "The Fine art of Fielding belongs in the upper echelon of anybody'due south league, in this example alongside Bernard Malamud'southward The Natural, Scott Lasser's Battle Creek and W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe."[4] However, not all printing was in praise of the book, with some criticizing its lightness.[5]
Accolades [edit]
The Art of Fielding was shortlisted for the Guardian Showtime Book Honor in 2012, although the book Yellow Birds past Kevin Powers ultimately won.[2]
Adaptations [edit]
In August 2011, it was reported that HBO was in talks to develop the novel into a television drama. Scott Rudin was attached as executive producer, with Harbach to serve as a consulting producer.[6]
In May 2017, it was reported that IMG and Mandalay Sports Media would be adapting the novel into a movie. Craig Johnson will be directing and Tripper Clancy writing the script.[seven]
Controversy [edit]
In September 2017, writer Charles C. Green sued Chad Harbach claiming "large-scale misappropriation" by Harbach. The accommodate noted a very strong plot and style resemblance betwixt The Art of Fielding and Green's previously completed screenplay, Bucky's ninth.[8] [nine] In July 2018, Green's suit was dismissed, though he claimed he intends to appeal.[10]
References [edit]
- ^ Wernecke, Ellen (September seven, 2011), The Art of Fielding (review), A.V. Club, archived from the original on 24 September 2011, retrieved 10 June 2011
- ^ a b Alison Flood (eight November 2012). "Guardian First Book accolade 2012 shortlist appear". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2 Oct 2013. Retrieved Nov 8, 2012.
- ^ Gessen, Keith (23 September 2014). "The Book On Publishing". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 22 June 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^ Wendel, Tim. "The Art of Fielding review". Book review. The Washington Independent Review of Books. Archived from the original on November 26, 2012. Retrieved Sep 9, 2011.
- ^ Myers, B.R. (one May 2012). "A Swing and a Miss". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 11 July 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ^ Levine, Stuart (eleven Baronial 2011). "HBO 'Fielding' new drama projection". Diversity. Archived from the original on half dozen August 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^ Galuppo, Mia (2 May 2017). "'The Fine art of Fielding' Movie in the Works With IMG, Mandalay". Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2 May 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ Hamilton, B. Colby. "Author of 'The Art of Fielding' Accused of Pilfering Plot Points". New York Police force Journal. Archived from the original on 2017-09-16. Retrieved 2017-09-xv .
- ^ Stempel, Jonathan (15 September 2017). "Author of 'The Art of Fielding' committed an fault, rival says in lawsuit". Reuters. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
- ^ Morgan, Richard (10 July 2018). "Author wins suit accusing him of plagiarizing baseball novel". New York Post. Archived from the original on 13 July 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
External links [edit]
- "Big League Anxiety on the Baseball Diamond" at The New York Times
- "Debut Baseball Novel is a Solid Striking" at USA Today
- "The Art of Fielding" at The A.V. Club
- "Call Me Safe, Ishmael" at The Wall Street Journal
- 'Fine art of Fielding's' Chad Harbach learns art of dealing with a hitting at the Los Angeles Times
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Fielding
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