Just Listen Podcast: The First Seven Years
b'Today\\u2019s author Bernard Malamud\\xa0was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with\\xa0Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, and Phillip Roth,\\xa0he was one of the best known American Jewish\\xa0authors of the 20th century. His baseball\\xa0novel\\xa0The Natural\\xa0was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford.\\xa0Today\\u2019s story, \\u201cThe First Seven Years,\\u201d depicts a Polish immigrant\\u2019s desire to see his daughter achieve a better life.\\xa0His notion of that life, however, is not the same as hers.'