The Natural - Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud

Category: General Fiction

Narrator: Christopher Hurt

Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Adults, Contemporary

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Edition: Unabridged Release date: July 25, 2007 Duration: 06:43:48, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bernard Malamuds 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 Kazins comment still holds true: Malamud has done something whichnow 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., This fine audio production retains the flavor of the world of professional sports circa 1940 though no explanation is needed for the contemporary listener. Christopher Hurts vaguely Mi