The Mourners
1955
First Published
3.07
Average Rating
300
Number of Pages
Kessler is formerly an egg candler, living alone in a cheap apartment located on the top floor of a decrepit tenement building on the East Side. He’d had a family but he outgrew them. Thirty years have passed and Kessler had made no attempt to see them. In turn, his family hadn’t seen him, yet it didn’t bother him much.
Avg Rating
3.07
Number of Ratings
15
5 STARS
13%
4 STARS
20%
3 STARS
40%
2 STARS
13%
1 STARS
13%
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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.
