The Natural
A Novel
Introduction 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 ha…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4668-0503-3
- EAN: 9781466805033
- Produktnummer: 22469389
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 230 KB
- Abbildungen: New Introduction
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Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Kevin Baker
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