A Malamud Reader
1967
First Published
4.45
Average Rating
528
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This volume presents between the covers of a single book the range and scope of one of the most distinguished writers in America, Bernard Malamud. A Malamud Reader contains the complete text of The Assistant, his novel of love and redemption in Brooklyn; ten stories from The Magic Barrel and Idiots First ; three journeys—to Chicago, from The Natural ; to the coast, from A New Life ; and to Kiev, from The Fixer—and two long selections, "S. Levin in Love" and "Yakov Bok in Prison."
Avg Rating
4.45
Number of Ratings
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Author
Bernard Malamud
Author · 23 books
Bernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
