Praise for The Art of Fielding: ‘First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom’ Jonathan Franzen, author of Crossroads‘A terrifically engaging novel … you will be rewarded by a page-turning, beguiling and wonderfully warm-hearted read’ Sunday Times‘A big, beautiful blowout of a book, sure and generous, it reads like a throwback to the mid-20th century, when American literature was in its pomp … an exceptional debut’ Guardian‘Wonderful … a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting’ New York Times‘An outstanding novel about sport … in Henry Skrimshander, Harbach has created a character who will keep sports psychologists in conversation for years’ The Times‘A debut of great warmth and weight … This is a charming, moving and slyly profound novel. You might even say Chad Harbach hit this one out of the park’ Sunday Telegraph‘Dazzles and bewitches and inspires, until you nearly lose your breath from the enjoyment and satisfaction’ James Patterson, author of Delusional‘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‘Pure fun, easy to read, 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
