The Natural. Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker
The Natural Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker ebook
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page: 248
ISBN: 9780374502003
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) 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.”
The author's first novel, a story about the baseball hero Roy Hobbs. "He possesses a gift for characterization that is often breathtaking." -- The New York Times
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