โ Scribed by Malamud, Bernard
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 231 pages
Published 1952
FSG eBook (2011)
Callil-Toibin 200 Best Novels in English (1950-1999)
Introduction by: Kevin Baker
The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the firstโand some would say still the bestโnovel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different materialโthe story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball eraโand 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 whichโnow that he has done it!โlooks 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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