General Information
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 Title:                  The Natural
 Author:                 Bernard Malamud
 Read By:                Christopher Hurt
 Copyright:              1952
 Audiobook Copyright:    1993
 Genre:                  Classic Literature
 Publisher:              Blackstone Audio
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Good

File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         7
 Total Duration:         6:43:48
 Total MP3 Size:         184.88
 Parity Archive:         YES
 Ripped By:              Indy
 Encoded At:             CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3

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Book Description
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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."

