Once in a great while, a debut novel appears that causes critics to declare an instant classic. Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding is such a book. The New York Times and many others have listed it as one of the best books of 2011.
The Art of Fielding is set in a college in American’s Mid-West, and it’s a story about baseball. But, as critic Michiko Kakutani says, “it’s also a magical, melancholy story about friendship and coming of age that marks the debut of an immenselytalented writer.”
On Thursday January 19th, Harbach will give a reading at Amsterdam’s John Adam’s Institute and talk about his book.
We have TEN pairs of tickets to give away for this event, courtesy of the John Adams Institute!
To enter the draw to win two free tickets, just send an email to hayley@abc.nl by 10am on Monday January 16th.
Please include your contact details in the mail, which store you would like to collect the tickets.
And to help us not miss your entry, put “Chad Harbach tickets” in the subject line.
- When: Monday 19 January 2012, 8pm
- Where: Aula – Universiteit van Amsterdam – Singel 411 Amsterdam
- Admission: Members €11,00 Non members €18,50 Students/seniors €10,00
- More Info: JAI site
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Leanne Delehanty was born in 1948, of Irish parents. She lived in America until she was 16. She then left for Europe, where she worked and studied for many years. Her first publication was in New York, by ‘The Small Spiral Notebook’, a magazine for international writers. In 2006, ‘Jimmy and the Pink Diamond’ was translated and published in The Netherlands. Her next children’s book, ‘The Tiger and the Star’ is awaiting publication. Her last book, ‘The Brussels Legacy’ has just been edited. She has had many international art exhibitions, and there are world-wide collectors of her paintings. She has studied in Paris, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Boston and Amsterdam. Leanne Delehanty has been living and working in Amsterdam since 1988. She is a former member of the SCBWI, and her work was featured in their international summer conference in Los Angeles, 2008.
