The Natural
Bernard Malamud
Farrar, Straus And Giroux (2003)
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#3553
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General Fiction
Baseball Players/ Fiction, Baseball Stories, Fiction / Sports
Paperback 9780374502003
English
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin Baker The Natural, Bernard Malamud’s first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material—the story of a superbly gifted “natural” at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era—and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin’s comment still holds true: “Malamud has done something which—now that he has done it!—looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology.”
Product Details
LoC Classification PS3563.A4 .N3 2003
LoC Control Number 2003104942
Dewey 813.54
Cover Price $14.00
No. of Pages 248
Height x Width 8.2 x 5.4  inch
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