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Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Bernard Malamud, SparkNotes
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 237
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswode, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., Turtleback Books
- Editions
- 75
- Language
- Italian, slo, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780060958299
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“Roy Hobbs pawed at the glass before thinking to prick a match with his thumbnail and hold the spurting flame in his cupped palm close to the lower berth window, but by then he had figured it was a tunnel they were passing through and was no longer surprised at the bright sight of himself holding a yellow light over his head, peering back in.”
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel *The Natural* was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel *The Fixer* (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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