The Natural - Paperback

Name: The Natural - Paperback
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SKU: 9780374502003
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by Bernard Malamud

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Book Overview

The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition

Introduction 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."

ISBN	9780374502003
Author	Bernard Malamud
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	July 2003
Language	ENG- English
Pages	231
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Teens & young adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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