A review by jamelchior
The Natural by Bernard Malamud

5.0

I was fascinated by the way this classic baseball story slips back and forth between reality and a magical, dreamlike state, one in which, for example, the damaged hero Roy promises to tear the cover off the ball and then literally does. Characters sometimes feel human, sometimes feel like Jungian archetypes. It’s a great read for anyone whose team just lost the playoffs and anyone that ever struggled with self-sabotage and couldn’t figure out why.