Natural (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780812473100)

The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe 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.

Author: Bernard Malamud
ISBN-10: 0812473108
ISBN-13: 9780812473100
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2003
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 55938 / Natural