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                            The Art of Fielding
                            by Chad Harbach

                            In THE ART OF FIELDING, we see sport played in its purest form: by young men who know that their four years on the baseball diamond at Westish College, "a little school in the crook of the thumb of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin," are all they have left. 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 astray. Five lives brought together at Westish - three players; the college′s president and his prodigal daughter - are forever changed by Henry′s single error. The novel that unfolds thereafter is many things: a masterpiece of what James Wood would call "free indirect style," but what a lover of fiction would simply recognize as great storytelling; a campus novel as good as any to spring from that well-tilled soil; and a beautiful and trenchant and veracious depiction of sport. It′s a warm-hearted, expansive book, one whose intelligence runs as deep as its emotion, and very rarely does one encounter characters that one cares about as much as Henry Skrimshander, Owen Glass, Mike Schwartz, and Guert and Pella Affenlight.

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                            Past Book Club Books

                            Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart
                            The Tiger’s Wife – Téa Obreht
                            Past The Shallows – Favel Parrett
                            A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
                            Bed – David Whitehouse
                            There but for the – Ali Smith
                            Graveminder – Melissa Marr
                            The Sisters Brothers - Patrick de Whitt
                            What the Family Needed - Steven Amsterdam
                            The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco

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