| Natural Contributor(s): Malamud, Bernard (Author), Baker, Kevin (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0812473108 ISBN-13: 9780812473100 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $26.61 Product Type: Prebound - 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 | Literary - Fiction | Sports - Fiction | Fantasy - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003104942 |
| Lexile Measure: 1060 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.60 lbs) 237 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) 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. |