SOURCE: Lauricella, John A. “‘Only Connect’: The Tragicomic Romance of Roy Hobbs.” In Homes Games: Essays on Baseball Fiction, pp. 143-60. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, Inc., 1999.
In the following essay, Lauricella considers The Natural as a composite of novel and romance with a “failed hero.”
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