{"product_id":"the-natural-bernard-malamud-paperback","title":"The Natural -- Bernard Malamud, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction by Kevin Baker\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Natural\u003c\/i\u003e, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first--and some would say still the best--novel ever written about baseball. \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bernard Malamud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7\/7\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.28\" H x 5.48\" L x 0.62\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780374502003\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54172955541803,"sku":"9780374502003","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780374502003.jpg?v=1784319194","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/the-natural-bernard-malamud-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}