The Natural
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:…
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Weitere Autoren: Baker, Kevin (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-374-50200-3
- EAN: 9780374502003
- Produktnummer: 19366252
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 231 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.6 cm 222 g
- Gewicht: 222
- Sonstiges: Ab 14 - 18 J.
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Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Kevin Baker
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