The protagonist of a novel by this author has a vision of St. Francis transforming his wooden flower into a real one. In that
The protagonist of a novel by this author has a vision of St. Francis transforming his wooden flower into a real one. In that novel by this author, Helen loses her virginity to the law student Nat Pearl and is raped by the protagonist after he saves her from Ward Minogue. In addition to writing a novel in which Frank Alpine works for a Jewish grocery, this author created a character who accepts thirty five thousand dollars from Judge Banner in order to marry Memo Paris. That character is shot by Harriet Bird after striking out the Whammer, and nearly leads the New York Knights to the pennant with his bat Wonderboy. For 10 points, name this author of The Assistant who wrote about the baseball player Roy Hobbs in The Natural.
The protagonist of a novel by this author has a vision of St. Francis transforming his wooden flower into a real one.
Bernard {Malamud}