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<DIV><B>The Natural</B><BR></div><DIV><DIV><b>PRE-GAME</b></div></div><DIV><DIV><b>R</b>oy 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. As the train yanked its long tail out of the thundering tunnel, the kneeling reflection dissolved and he felt a splurge of freedom at the view of the moon-hazed Western hills bulked against night broken by sprays of summer lightning, although the season was early spring. Lying back, elbowed up on his long side, sleepless still despite the lulling train, he watched the land flowing and waited with suppressed expectancy for a sight of the Mississippi, a thousand miles away.</div><DIV>Having no timepiece he appraised the night and decided it was moving toward dawn. As he was looking, there flowed along this bone-white farmhouse with sagging skeletal porch, alone in untold miles of moonlight, and before it this white-faced, long-boned boy whipped with train-whist

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Author

Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker - undifferentiated, SparkNotes Staff

Publisher

Ferrar, Straus and Giroux; Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

1952

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374502003

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.62 / 5 (7,864 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13