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The Natural

By Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker (Preface)

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| Paperback | 9780374502003

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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 MalaContinue



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.”

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  • A novel about baseball, but also the story of un unlucky guy, who wanted to be famous and successful. He always fell in love with the wrong girl...From the 60' nothing seems to be changed.

    Baseball is not only in the background, but permeates the whole story. Good descriptions (landscapes and chara ... (continue)

    A novel about baseball, but also the story of un unlucky guy, who wanted to be famous and successful. He always fell in love with the wrong girl...From the 60' nothing seems to be changed.

    Baseball is not only in the background, but permeates the whole story. Good descriptions (landscapes and characters). I appreciated this book much more after reading the Sparknotes guide, which explains the mythological interpretation of the novel

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