I've read a lot of Malamud's work, but somehow I missed The Natural. Like Lydia, though, I saw the movie and liked it. I just never realized that it was based on one of Malamud's books. Hmmmm...
A New Life is also a good one -- academic novel set in the Pacific Northwest and based on his experiences teaching at Oregon State in Corvallis.
Some other first-rate baseball novels:
You Know Me, Al, Ring Lardner The Great American Novel, Phillip Roth Bang the Drum Slowly, Mark Harris (also a good movie, starring a young Robert DeNiro) The Kid From Tomkinsville, John R. Tunis (written for young people) Hoopla, Harry Stein Shoeless Joe, W P Kinsella Tootp-Toot-Tootsie Goodbye, Ron Powers
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I will seem pitiful and admit that I have not read the book. But o, how I loved the movie!
(Did you see my post with an Emmylou song last week? I considered linking to your 365 blog but wasn't sure if I should...)
I read the book years ago--too many to remember. I now have a list of books I need to re-reead, and this one is included.
I also loved The Fixer. Along the same line, did you ever read Phillip Roth's Call It Sleep?
Whoops, fact check. Make that Henry Roth.
I've read a lot of Malamud's work, but somehow I missed The Natural. Like Lydia, though, I saw the movie and liked it. I just never realized that it was based on one of Malamud's books. Hmmmm...
Missed both.
A New Life is also a good one -- academic novel set in the Pacific Northwest and based on his experiences teaching at Oregon State in Corvallis.
Some other first-rate baseball novels:
You Know Me, Al, Ring Lardner
The Great American Novel, Phillip Roth
Bang the Drum Slowly, Mark Harris (also a good movie, starring a young Robert DeNiro)
The Kid From Tomkinsville, John R. Tunis (written for young people)
Hoopla, Harry Stein
Shoeless Joe, W P Kinsella
Tootp-Toot-Tootsie Goodbye, Ron Powers
I like the last lines in Catch 22:
"The knife came down, missing him by inches, annd he took off."
And one of my favorite opening lines:
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again."
Rebecca - Daphne DuMaurier
CP, got you covered here.
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