Malamud's classic 1957 story of a young Gentile hoodlum who works at a family-owned Jewish grocery store in exchange for a place to stay. What the family doesn't know is that he was one of the boys responsible for a previous robbery of their store.
Now an American baseball hero and a winner after a dark period, Roy finds the woman he thought he had lost. But he is up against corrupters, seducers, and glory destroyers. And he has to win the toughest game of his life.
Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italian American, works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood where he develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.
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.
