A wonderful, warm novel from a major American voice.‘It's left a little hole in my life the way a really good book will’ Jonathan FranzenA small American college. Five very different lives. One terrible mistake.At Westish College, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for the big league until a routine throw goes disastrously off course. His error will upend the fates of five people. Henry's burgeoning self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College presi...

Westish College, een kleine universiteit aan de oever van Lake Michigan. De jonge, getalenteerde honkballer Henry Skrimshander is voorbestemd om een ster te worden. Maar wanneer tijdens een wedstrijd een routineworp van zijn hand verkeerd uitvalt, nemen vijf levens een andere wending. Henry's groeiende gebrek aan zelfvertrouwen lijkt zijn veelbelovende toekomst te ruïneren. Het hoofd van de universiteit, de eeuwige vrijgezel Guert Affenlight, wordt onverwacht verliefd. Owen Dunne, Henry's ...

**A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball.“Wonderful ... a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting.” —The New York Times“First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom.” —Jonathan Franzen, New York Times bestselling author of Crossroads**At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball st...

Henry Skrimshander est une véritable star du baseball : dans l’équipe du Westish College, petite université du Wisconsin, il conclut tous ses matches par un sans-faute. Jusqu’au jour où il rate un lancer facile. Son destin, ainsi que la vie de quatre personnes, prennent alors un tournant décisif.Déstabilisé, Henry remet en cause la brillante carrière à laquelle il est promis. Guert Affenlight, le président de l’université, tombe contre toute attente éperdument amoureux. Owen Dunne, ...

A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice.In The Art of Fielding, we see young men who know that their four years on the baseball diamond at Westish College are all that remain of their sporting careers. Only their preternaturally gifted fielder, Henry Skrimshander, seems to have the chance to keep his dream – and theirs, vicariously – alive, until a routine throw goes disastrously off course, and the fates of five people are upended.After his throw threatens ...

**A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball.“Wonderful ... a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting.” —The New York Times“First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom.” —Jonathan Franzen, New York Times bestselling author of Crossroads**At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball st...

Henry Skrimshander, a grande aposta do time de beisebol da Westish College, parece destinado ao estrelato na grande liga, até que um arremesso de rotina sai desastrosamente do curso.Como consequência desse erro, o destino de cinco pessoas vira de cabeça para baixo. A luta de Henry contra a insegurança ameaça destruir seu futuro como jogador. Guert Affenlight, reitor da faculdade há muito tempo solteiro, se vê de repente perdidamente apaixonado. Owen Dunne, colega d...

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‘I could not put it down’ MADELINE CASHThe acclaimed author of The Art of Fielding returns with a long-awaited, immersive new novel. The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella Affenlight and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way into a larger world that won't stop changing.At 27, Pella’s life looks settled: she’s a recent college graduate, engaged to Mike, her longtime boyf...

From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change.Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their ...

An inside baseball memoir from the game’s first superstar, with a foreword by Chad HarbachChristy Mathewson was one of the most dominant pitchers ever to play baseball. Posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of the “Five Immortals,” he was an unstoppable force on the mound, winning at least twenty-two games for twelve straight seasons and pitching three complete-game shutouts in the 1905 World Series. Pitching in a Pinch, his witty and...

From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change.Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their ...