The Natural
  • Published:
    Jan-1973 (Hardcover)
    Sep-1978 (Paperback)
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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."
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    •  
    • Sep-1978
    • Pocket
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0671826301
    • ISBN13: 9780671826307
    •  
    • Jul-1980
    • Avon
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0380682397
    • ISBN13: 9780380682393
    •  
    • Dec-1993
    • Avon
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0380720841
    • ISBN13: 9780380720842
    •  
    • Aug-1995
    • Avon
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0380506092
    • ISBN13: 9780380506095
    •  
    • Nov-2000
    • HarperPerennial
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0060958294
    • ISBN13: 9780060958299
    •  
    • Jun-2002
    • Vintage (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099437023
    • ISBN13: 9780099437024
    • First Edition
    • Jan-1973
    • Pocket
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0671782738
    • ISBN13: 9780671782733
    •  
    • Dec-1961
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374219605
    • ISBN13: 9780374219604
    •  
    • Jan-1980
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0606216073
    • ISBN13: 9780606216074
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Jan-1980
    • Time Life Medical
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0809435934
    • ISBN13: 9780809435937
    •  
    • Jan-1980
    • Time Life Medical
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0809435942
    • ISBN13: 9780809435944
    •  
    • Aug-1995
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0606016880
    • ISBN13: 9780606016889
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Jul-2003
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jul-2003
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 146680503X
    • ISBN13: 9781466805033
    •  
    • Aug-2017
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1446419126
    • ISBN13: 9781446419120
    •  
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1713607832
    • ISBN13: 9781713607830
    •  
    • May-1986
    • DH Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0886461561
    • ISBN13: 9780886461560
    •  
    • Jun-1993
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0786104546
    • ISBN13: 9780786104543
    •  
    • Dec-1999
    • Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jun-2007
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0786159197
    • ISBN13: 9780786159192
    •  
    • Oct-1984
    • G.K. Hall & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0816137579
    • ISBN13: 9780816137572
    • Large Print



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