Bernard Malamud

• 1959
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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Introduction by Jhumpa LahiriBernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and i...

• 1966
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The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially ...

• Dec-1967
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An Intimate Window into the American Immigrant ExperienceMorris Bober, the family patriarch, yearns for better fortune as he runs a grocery store, never expecting how two robbers would change his life. Working alongside Morris, Frank Alpine, with his...

• Dec-1967
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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 Brookl...

• Mar-1972
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This is the story in art of the painter Arthur Fidelman, born in the Bronx and spending years of his life in Italy--Rome, Milan, Florence and Venice--pursuing his tumultuous career through adventure and misadventure. What perhaps saved him from disa...

• Jan-1973
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The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first -- and some would say still the best -- no...

• May-1976
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With a new introduction by Aleksandar HemonIn The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenemen...

• Feb-1980
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With a new introduction by Thomas MallonDubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's "best novel since The Assistant. Possibly, it is the best he has written ...

• Apr-1980
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"An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan Lethem In A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as ...

• Nov-1983
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Compassionate and profound in their wry humor, this collection of stories captures the poetry of human relationships at the point where reality and imagination meet....

• May-1985
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• Sep-1986
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This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes:Idiots FirstBlack Is My Favorite ColorStill LifeThe Death of MeA Choice of ProfessionLife Is Better Than DeathThe JewbirdNaked NudeThe Cost of LivingThe Maid's ShoesSuppose a WeddingThe Ger...

• Sep-1986
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This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes:The Silver CrownMan in the DrawerThe LetterIn RetirementRembrandt's HatNotes from a Lady at a Dinner PartyMy Son the MurdererTalking Horse...

• Dec-1989
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Includes Malamud's novel, The People, which was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1986, with the text presented as the author left it, as well as fourteen previously uncollected stories. Set in the nineteenth century, The People has as its ...

• Oct-1998
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New York Times Notable Book of the YearPublishers Weekly Best Book of 1997With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collectio...

• Apr-2005
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God's Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood -- a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's protagonist is paleolosist Calvin ...

• Mar-2014
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Raised in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants, and coming of age in Depression-era New York, Bernard Malamud (1914â€"1986) began his career writing stories of unsparing precision and power, plumbing the depths of an impoverished urban world. His e...

• Mar-2014
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Through his distinctive fusion of modernist daring and traditional storytelling, Bernard Malamud became one of postwar America’s most important writers, his work an inspiration for and lasting influence on novelists who have come after him, Cynthia...