- Published: 24 August 2017
- ISBN: 9781446419120
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
The Natural
- Published: 24 August 2017
- ISBN: 9781446419120
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
An unusually fine novel... In his telling and always deliberate use of the vernacular alternated with passages evocative and almost lyrical, in his almost entirely successful relation of baseball in detail to the culture which elaborated it, Malamud has made a brilliant and unusual book
New York Times
A rich original of the first rank
Saul Bellow
One of the best writers in the English language... His work embeds itself into one's consciousness and refuses to be dislodged
Sunday Times
This book established that we could have a serious adult baseball novel by playing with the parallels between mythical elements in the game and mythical elements in literature
Chicago Tribune
Bernard Malamud's The Natural that still leads the field [for novels about baseball]. It is one of the landmarks of a period in US fiction when Jewish novelists dominated the scene with work of the highest ambition
Metro
The Natural by Bernard Malamud shows the agony, destruction and pathos that come often with great sports talent
Sid Waddell, sports commentator, Independent