THE NATURAL by Bernard Malamud
 


The story mostly concerns his attempts to return to baseball later in life, when he plays for the fictional New York Knights with his self-made bat "Wonderboy".



Published by International Collectors Library.



Condition: Very good. Tight cover and binding. There is wear to the edges of the covers. 185 pages.   There is some foxing to the paper along the close book pages (see pictures).


Some Information About "Roy Hobbs – "The Natural" – A former teenage pitching phenomenon whose career dreams were derailed after a mysterious woman shot and seriously wounded him as he travelled to Chicago to try out for a Major League baseball team. The story revolves around Hobbs's quest to make a comeback years after the tragedy and, hopefully, finally to take his rightful place on the field and be remembered as one of the greatest ballplayers of all time."



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