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- Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
- ISBN: 0374502005
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100046122
- Release Date: June 1, 1980
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #79262 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #10121 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #739 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Natural" by Bernard Malamud to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Natural"Browse more products related to "Bernard Malamud"Publisher's noteThe classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction 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." AnnotationThe classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction 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." If You Enjoy "Natural (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Natural (Paperback)" by Bernard Malamud (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Literary Bestsellers
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