In Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, a freak sports
accident sets in motion events that will profoundly affect five people at a
small Wisconsin college. The story-telling is occasionally a little
clumsy. (The message seems to be, “You
can’t always get what you want but if you try, sometimes, you just might get
what you need.”) The writing though—it’s beautiful, with some of the metaphors
just stunning.
