Yes, we had this whole thing planned out about how on earth Henry could be happy. But it took weeks (months?) to even get there.
The Art of Fielding is a book! It's about five people at a little college in Wisconsin - three baseball players, the college president, and his daughter. At one crucial game our hero Henry (yes, another Henry!) makes a bad throw, hitting his friend Owen in the face. As a result, he just can't play anymore, and everyone's lives spiral out of control in one way or another. It's largely a book about being "blocked", whether from throwing correctly or writing a novel, monomaniacal pursuit of one thing, whether that's playing baseball or seducing the hot young student you've fallen for, and facing the reality of having to grow up and leave college one day, whether you're 22 or 62.
It's a surprisingly funny book, with great characters, and of course my personal favourite of the May-December interracial gay romance (which has to win literary trope bingo). I think you'd like it, at the very least from the literature geekery / writing angle.
Here's the author, Chad Harbach, reading an early chapter in which baseball prodigy Henry is trying to cope with life at college, his parents' dislike of his gay roommate Owen, and the perpetual problem of wearing the wrong jeans. I was listening to this at work one day and completely cracked up at one part. You will probably realize where.
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The Art of Fielding is a book! It's about five people at a little college in Wisconsin - three baseball players, the college president, and his daughter. At one crucial game our hero Henry (yes, another Henry!) makes a bad throw, hitting his friend Owen in the face. As a result, he just can't play anymore, and everyone's lives spiral out of control in one way or another. It's largely a book about being "blocked", whether from throwing correctly or writing a novel, monomaniacal pursuit of one thing, whether that's playing baseball or seducing the hot young student you've fallen for, and facing the reality of having to grow up and leave college one day, whether you're 22 or 62.
It's a surprisingly funny book, with great characters, and of course my personal favourite of the May-December interracial gay romance (which has to win literary trope bingo). I think you'd like it, at the very least from the literature geekery / writing angle.
Here's the author, Chad Harbach, reading an early chapter in which baseball prodigy Henry is trying to cope with life at college, his parents' dislike of his gay roommate Owen, and the perpetual problem of wearing the wrong jeans. I was listening to this at work one day and completely cracked up at one part. You will probably realize where.