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 brilliant and unusually fine novel. "The New York Times"
A preposterously readable story about life. "Time"
Malamud [holds a] high and honored place among contemporary American writers. "Washington Post Book World"
The finest novel about baseball since Ring Lardner left the scene. "St. Louis Post-Dispatch""
A brilliant and unusually fine novel. The New York Times
A preposterously readable story about life. Time
Malamud [holds a] high and honored place among contemporary American writers. Washington Post Book World
The finest novel about baseball since Ring Lardner left the scene. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
""A brilliant and unusually fine novel." --The New York Times
"A preposterously readable story about life." --Time
"Malamud [holds a] high and honored place among contemporary American writers." --Washington Post Book World
"The finest novel about baseball since Ring Lardner left the scene." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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