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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Title : The Natural Author : Bernard Malamud ISBN : 0-14-018519-4 Category : Fiction Subject : Classics	Publication Year : 1967 Publisher : Penguin Books Copyright : Bernard Malamud 1952 Pages : 224 Binding : Softcover Condition : Good - Ex-library, laminated covers
Product Dimensions Height (mm) : 196 Width (mm) : 128 Thickness (mm) : 14 Weight (grams) : 177 Product Code : 813-MAL-4578