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Malamud has written no sequel as such to The Natural, but in The Assistant (1957), it seems that Frank Alpine is another incarnation of Roy Hobbs. Like Roy, he comes from an obscure and unhappy past and tries to start a new life, chastened by his past experiences so that, unlike Roy, he does not have any grandiose notions about himself or his ability. Viewed in this way, The Assistant is a kind of sequel to The Natural, although all of the characters are different, being much closer to those that appear in the short stories than to those in Malamud's first...
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