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The Natural
Bernard Malamud
The Natural
Bernard Malamud
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."
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 1 |
Released | April 13, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9781713607830 |
Label | Audible Studios on Brilliance |
Dimensions | 133 × 171 × 13 mm · 150 g (Weight (estimated)) |
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