The Natural - Bernard Malamud

The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first￢ﾀﾔand some would say still the best￢ﾀﾔnovel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material￢ﾀﾔthe story of a superbly gifted natural at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era￢ﾀﾔ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￢ﾀﾔnow that he has done it!￢ﾀﾔ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.

Title: The Natural

Author: Bernard Malamud

ISBN: 140027831

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