| The Natural Contributor(s): Malamud, Bernard (Author), Baker, Kevin (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0374502005 ISBN-13: 9780374502003 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sports - Fiction | Fantasy - Historical - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93241037 |
| Lexile Measure: 1060 |
| Series: FSG Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.48" W x 8.28" (0.49 lbs) 231 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1930's |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 55938 Reading Level: 6.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin Baker 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Malamud, Bernard: - Bernard Malamud (1914-86) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for The Fixer, and the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel. Born in Brooklyn, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont. |