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The Natural - (FSG Classics) by Bernard Malamud (Paperback)

The Natural - (FSG Classics) by  Bernard Malamud (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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 takes on the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era--and invests it with the hardscrabble poetry, grand and believable, that runs through all his best work.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition</b> <p/><b>Introduction by Kevin Baker</b> <p/><b><i>The Natural</i>, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first--and some would say still the best--novel ever written about baseball. </b> <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A brilliant and unusually fine novel." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"A preposterously readable story about life." --<i>Time</i> <p/>"Malamud [holds a] high and honored place among contemporary American writers." --<i>Washington Post Book World</i> <p/>"The finest novel about baseball since Ring Lardner left the scene." --<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Bernard Malamud</b> (1914-86) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for<i> The Fixer</i>, and the National Book Award for <i>The Magic Barrel</i>. Born in Brooklyn, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont.</p>

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