Description: BERNARD MALAMUD - THE NATURAL - 1952 - BCE HCDJ - Nice! 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." Book is very nice - clean and tight! DJ is also pretty nice with a bit of normal wear. See pictures!
Price: 19.99 USD
Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
End Time: 2024-12-05T20:37:09.000Z
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Book Club Edition
Author: Bernard Malamud
Publisher: Farrar , Straus and Giroux
Topic: Baseball
Subject: Sports & Recreation
Original/Facsimile: Original
