The Art of Fielding

‘Terrifically engaging … a page-turning, beguiling and wonderfully warm-hearted read’ Sunday Times
‘Sensational and utterly gripping. Harbach has created characters who entrance: vulnerable, beautifully drawn and likeable’ Observer
‘Charming, warm-hearted, addictive … a big American novel of the old school’ Guardian
‘A magical, melancholy story about friendship and the coming of age that marks the debut of an immensely talented writer’ New York Times
‘Terrific … left a little hole in my life the way a really good book will’ Jonathan Franzen, author of Crossroads
‘Pure fun … as if the other Fielding had a hand in it – as if Tom Jones were about baseball and college life’ John Irving, author of A Prayer for Owen Meany
‘An intricate, poised, tingling debut … leaves you longing, lingering, and a baseball convert long after the last page’ Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife
‘Dazzles and bewitches and inspires, until you nearly lose your breath from the enjoyment and satisfaction’ James Patterson, author of Return of the Spider
‘One of the best American debuts in decades … Astonishingly good. I defy [readers] not to be engrossed by this tale’ Daily Telegraph
‘Very good indeed. Harbach captures precisely the strangely becalmed grace that sets sportsmen like Henry apart’ Independent
‘The Art of Fielding emerges fully formed, a world unto itself. Harbach writes with a tender, egoless virtuosity’ GQ
‘A heart-swelling read about youth and success and security and what happens when they all go away … told with kindness and good humour’ Esquire
‘Ostensibly about baseball, The Art of Fielding is, of course, about much more than that: ambition, desire, failure and, above all, friendship … wonderfully entertaining’ Tatler
‘Embodied in the novel’s warm, expansive prose is a sense of big-heartedness and optimism’ TLS