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...ASSISTANT (246 pp.) - Bernard Malamud- Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...Lardner who made the first serious attempt in fiction to find out if baseball players are people. His answer in the You Know Me, Al stories could be boiled down to yes, with reservations. Now, 40 years later, both sportswriters and novelists seem to have fewer reservations. In Bernard Malamud's The Natural (TIME, Sept. 8, 1952), there was the mystical intimation that major-leaguers might even have souls. In Bang the Drum Slowly, Novelist Mark (The Southpaw) Harris modestly stays closer to the bag. Look, he says, they are human, and their hearts can hurt as much...
Press 88. For the first time in the memory of publishers, a U.S. magazine (LIFE) printed a novel complete in one issue before its appearance in book form: 1. Malamud's The Natural...
...story, The Natural, is told by Brooklynite First-Novelist Bernard Malamud. In some parts it is just about the best baseball yarning since the late great Ring Lardner put the cover on his typewriter. One side of The Natural is broad farce, in which Novelist Malamud kids the legends of baseball prowess. The other side of Roy's story is pitched to the theme of American tragedy. He had come up to the leagues once before as a youngster, only to be shot by a madwoman in a Chicago hotel the night before he was to report...
...level, The Natural is a preposterously original and readable story about life on & off the diamond. On another level, Novelist Malamud juggles symbolism and cloudy language to suggest the tragic limitations of the average American dream. He is better when his creatures are playing baseball than when they are playing with the Big Questions...