The Natural: A Novel but always deeply aware that

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The Natural: A Novel but always deeply aware thatThe classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin Baker The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the firstand some would say still the bestnovel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different materialthe story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields