Description: 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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Literary Movement: Naturalism
Book Title: Natural : a Novel
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2003
Topic: Literary, Sports
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 7.8 Oz
Author: Bernard Malamud
Item Length: 5.5 in
Book Series: Fsg Classics Ser.
Item Width: 8.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
