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Indlæser... Kunsten at gribe livet (2011)af Chad Harbach
  
Favourite Books (281) » 14 mere Top Five Books of 2015 (120) Books Read in 2016 (2,295) Academia in Fiction (51) Five star books (700) To Read (130) Books about sports (59) to get (79) Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  buttsy1 | Oct 15, 2023 |    ) MugsyNoir | Jul 19, 2023 |  ) kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 | ) markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 | Mentre lo leggevo, mi ha appassionato soprattutto per la presenza di un coro di comprimari ben assortito: ciascuno ha una propria personalità e una storia intrigante, e tutte concorrono a formare un disegno unitario. Il baseball c'è e condiziona tutta la narrazione, per cui bene cosí. Devo ammettere che una volta chiuso il libro non mi è rimasto molto, se non il ricordo di una lettura piacevole. --- Precedente: [b:L'epoca delle passioni tristi|9703082|L'epoca delle passioni tristi|Miguel Benasayag|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1346227987l/9703082._SY75_.jpg|14591296] Successivo: [b:Strumenti per ragionare. Logica e teoria dell'argomentazione|95501912|Strumenti per ragionare. Logica e teoria dell'argomentazione|unknown author|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1678870913l/95501912._SX50_.jpg|119549477] (  ) Demistocle | May 19, 2023 |
 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. Tilhører ForlagsserienHæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. This novel is about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment to oneself and to others. No library descriptions found. |
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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. (