The Natural

by Malamud, Bernard
4.4 out of 5 Customer Rating
ISBN: 9780374502003
Availability:
$6.49
Used - Trade Paperback - 9780374502003

Available Offers

Overview

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."

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Malamud, Bernard
  • ISBN: 9780374502003
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.28 x 0.62
  • Number Of Pages: 231
  • Publication Year: 2003

Customer Reviews