The natural
by Bernard Malamud and SparkNotes Staff
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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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Baseball players, Fiction, Baseball, Baseball stories, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books, Baseball, fiction, Children's fiction, England, fiction, Gay men, fiction, Fiction, sportsPlaces
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"Introduction by Kevin Baker"--Cover.
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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."
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