The Natural
Publisher: Vintage
Published: June 6, 2002
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780099437024
First sentence: Roy 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.