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The Natural

A true natural at baseball can make it big if he keeps his eye on the ball.

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  • "A true natural at baseball can make it big if he keeps his eye on the ball."@en
  • "A true natural at baseball can make it big if he keeps his eye on the ball."
  • "A natural champ. He's an instant American hero, a born winner with the whole dream going for him--the game he loves, and the woman he thought he'd lost. But he's up against the corrupters, the seducers, the glory destroyers. And he's fighting to win the toughest game of his life. Staying on top."
  • "Pulitzer Prize winning author Bernard Malamud's first novel is still one of the best ever written about baseball. His story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era is invested with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. First published in 1952, this novel has since become an American classic. Five 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.""@en
  • "The Natural, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first novel, tells 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 that is at once grand and altogether believable."@en
  • "Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bernard Malamud's first novel is still one of the best ever written about baseball. His story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era is invested with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work."@en
  • "Bernard Malamud's first novel tells 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 that is at once grand and altogether believable."@en
  • "This is a novel about the career of Roy Hobbs, an extraordinarily gifted player on the Knights baseball team. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex."@en
  • "A man struggles to make his career in baseball after recovering from a random act of violence. His obstacles are many--including his advanced age of 34."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Baseball stories"@en
  • "Baseball stories"

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