![]() The novel follows the intersecting fates of five characters at a fictional Wisconsin college named Westish. Ultimately, I think “The Art of Fielding” is a work of escapism-a work of escapism about the perils of escaping. To my mind, that pervasive lightness is one of the novel’s virtues and helps conceal some of its flaws. Though Gessen later describes the ways in which Harbach improved the novel in subsequent drafts (“more compact, less sentimental, funnier”), I think it’s fair to say that a lightness of tone and style (and to a lesser extent of subject matter) has persisted into the published version of the book. ![]() ![]() (The Bad News Bears go to liberal-arts college.) I was surprised that my friend had spent five years working on something so insubstantial. I didn’t say this at the time, but it felt a little like a Disney film. ![]()
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