{"product_id":"the-natural-1","title":"The Natural","description":"The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Kevin Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48496290791679,"sku":"*R0105075*","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/the-natural-1","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}