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title: "A Natural Hardcover – 2 Mar 2017"
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# A Natural Hardcover – 2 Mar 2017

**Brand:** ross raisin
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        			&quot;Supremely accomplished and moving&#x2026; A masterful performance&#x2026; This is a gripping, mature, important novel. It would be a travesty if it doesn&#x2019;t win prizes.&quot; (William Skidelsky Observer)&quot;A layered and subtle exploration of masculinity, fear and desire, A Natural is as good a novel as I&#x2019;ve read in years. The poignancy of Ross Raisin&#x2019;s characters are equalled only by the brilliance of his writing.&quot; (John Boyne)&quot;Admirable &#x2026; genius &#x2026; amazing&#x2026; vertiginous.&quot; (Claire Lowdon Sunday Times)&quot;A Natural is a brilliant, deft and moving coming of age novel about the nature of masculinity and sexuality set against the backdrop of sport. Sensitively and beautifully drawn, it confirms Ross Raisin as a superb writer.&quot; (Carol Ann Duffy)&quot;Most novels about football aren&#x2019;t really about football&#x2026; They tend to avoid describing the game itself, with its strange mixture of pelting energy and exquisite boredom. Instead they shunt it into the background or repackage it as a metaphor, allowing the simple whacking of a ball into the net to be used as a way of writing about far less tangible goals. Ross Raisin&#x2019;s latest novel is refreshingly different. Following the fortunes of two lower-league footballers, it is a bold attempt to capture sport in the raw&#x2026; pitch-perfect.&quot; (Robert Douglas-Fairhurst The Times)&quot;A brave, subtle novel&#x2026; To a non-fan, the literary football novel can seem a little daunting&#x2026; Luckily, Ross Raisin&#x2019;s exceptional new novel addresses and overturns these preconceptions and conventional notions of masculinity in the most unexpected and sophisticated fashion&#x2026; Within the sinuous torque of its sentences, the book presents a subtle and portrait of a soul in torment. It&#x2019;s a winner.&quot; (Jude Cook Guardian)&quot;Football, like love, is a world of extreme highs and lows, and the protagonists in this sensitively crafted novel can only find joy when they accept who they really are &#x2013; five stars.&quot; (Sun)&quot;A powerful evocation of repressed emotion &#x2013; The Remains of the Day as told by Match of the Day.&quot; (Sam Kitchener Telegraph)&quot;A Natural&#x2026;is not just a football novel. It&#x2019;s about depression, loneliness and the truth behind masculinity.&quot; (Irish Tatler)&quot;Excellent&#x2026; Raisin excels at hidden stories&#x2026; this is a richer, deeper novel that purposefully rejects the over-exposed Premier League image of the beautiful game for the grubbier hardscrabble of life at the bottom of League Two&#x2026; Raisin is really good at exposing the ways men parade ideas of masculinity&#x2026; a deeply absorbing novel about the coded nature of identity, whether you are a footy fan or not.&quot; (Claire Allfree Metro)
				    	
			    	
        		  
        		  
        	
          
              
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        			A masterful performance&#x2026; This is a gripping, mature, important novel. It would be a travesty if it doesn&#x2019;t win prizes. -- Observer
				    	
			    	
        		  
        		  
        	
          
              
        	  	  About the Author
        	  
        	  
        		  
        			Ross Raisin was born in 1979 in West Yorkshire. His first novel, God&apos;s Own Country, was published in 2008 and was shortlisted for nine literary awards, including the Guardian First Book Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2009 Ross Raisin was named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. In 2013 he was selected as one of Granta&apos;s Best of Young British writers. He lives in London.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Disappointing
  

*by B***2 on 30 April 2018*









  
  
    I can’t believe that this is the same author I followed after reading God’s Own Country. How can two books be so different with this being dull, repetitive and boring. Swiped through the last 50%.
  


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    A wonderful and powerful novel from a great
  

*by M***S on 15 September 2017*









  
  
    I am still winded by this book, and have the characters in my head, five days after finishing it. A wonderful and powerful novel from a great writer
  


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    This Pitch is Real, Relevant and Just a Bit Raunchy!
  

*by P***H on 22 March 2017*









  
  
    As someone who is gay and has managed a football team, admittedly amateur, I feel a little qualified to comment about this book. As someone who is married, to a man, perhaps I am qualified more. If it's Easter no doubt my experience and history to date don't count.I liked this book. I liked it a good deal. The descriptions of the tedium and preparation really resonated with me. The highs of personal and team victories and the commensurate lows you always get in competitive sport.The author dealt with the football really well and the off field stuff be it gay or straight was on point. I have known players like Tom and even the "Easters"  of this world. I have also seen the disappointments and resignation of players when selection doesn't happen.The book describes the context and background of lower league football very well. I recall sentences when the smell of the room was described, when the view of a changing room from a sitting position was nailed and how panic and fear of being outed was taken care of very efficiently and colourfully by the author.The subject matter is relevant, the writing is good and has the right pace, the principal characters you will like or loathe and the plot takes you where you need to be and end up. Loved it. I would like a sequel.
  


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