The Natural
The Natural by Bernard Malamud is a notable work published by Penguin Books in 1967, featuring 222 pages in English. This novel, originally released in 1952, explores the life of a remarkably talented baseball player during the era of daylight baseball. Malamud, known for his insightful depictions of postwar Jewish life, brings a unique perspective to the world of sports, intertwining themes of talent, ambition, and the complexities of human experience.
Readers will find a rich narrative that delves into the passion and fervor surrounding baseball, capturing the essence of the sport as both a spectacle and a cultural phenomenon. The story presents the journey of a gifted athlete, reflecting on the challenges and triumphs inherent in pursuing greatness. With its focus on sports and recreation, particularly baseball, this edition of The Natural invites readers to engage with the timeless themes of aspiration and the human condition.
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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 “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.”
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