{"product_id":"the-natural","title":"The Natural","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction by Kevin Baker\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\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.\"","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48005419008189,"sku":"BS-TC0-502003","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780374502003-HD.jpg?v=1786934515","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/the-natural","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}