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A Natural: A Novel
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From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, an exquisitely crafted coming-of-age novel set in the high-stakes world of English soccer-for readers of Nick Hornby and The Art of Fielding.
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Street Date:
10/17/2017
Language:
English
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Ross Raisin. (2017). A Natural: A Novel. Unabridged HighBridge.

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Ross Raisin. 2017. A Natural: A Novel. HighBridge.

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Ross Raisin, A Natural: A Novel. HighBridge, 2017.

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Ross Raisin. A Natural: A Novel. Unabridged HighBridge, 2017.

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        This slow-building novel examines the unique pressures and trappings of the hypermasculine world of professional English soccer. After being cut from the national youth team, 19-year-old Tom reluctantly signs with Town, a middling squad floundering at the bottom of its division. There, Tom still fights for playing time alongside Easter, the team’s underperforming captain, who has a bad habit of reading message boards after losses. Most of the narrative bounces back and forth between Tom and Easter’s wife, Leah, a young mother painfully alone in her marriage. The author skillfully interweaves both characters’ feelings of isolation, setting up a number of strong reveals with impressive restraint and control. Once Easter goes down with a devastating leg injury, the disintegration of his and Leah’s marriage dovetails with Tom’s burgeoning relationship. The resolution of both stories is suitably heartbreaking, but the implications resolve themselves too quickly in a rushed ending that feels out of place in a novel whose power resides in authorial deliberateness. Nevertheless, this is a worthwhile sports novel with winning characters.

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