Bernard Malamud: Novels & Stories of the 1960s (Library of

Bernard Malamud: Novels & Stories of the 1960s (Library of America)

Through his distinctive fusion of modernist daring and traditional storytelling, Bernard Malamud became one of postwar Americaâ€™s most important writers, his work an inspiration for and lasting influence on novelists who have come after him, Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth most notably among them. The second volume of the Library of Americaâ€™s Malamud edition brings together three novels of the 1960s: A New Life (1961), a satiric campus novel set in the Pacific Northwest (based on the authorâ€™s experiences at Oregon State), in which native New Yorker Seymour Levin finds himself confronted not only with a new landscape but with erotic intrigue, university politics, and an appointment that isnâ€™t quite what he had expected it to be. The Fixer (1966) is the gripping saga of a Jew imprisoned in prerevolutionary Russia after being falsely accused of the ritual murder of a twelve-year-old boy. The novel-instories Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition (1969) follows the comic misadventures, sexual and otherwise, of a failed American painter in Italy. In the ten unforgettable stories concluding the collection, Malamud shows himself to be an heir to the tradition of Hawthorne, Chekhov, and Kafka, and at his bestâ€” â€œIdiots First,â€ â€œThe Jewbird,â€ â€œThe German Refugeeâ€â€” their equal.

Country	USA
Author	Bernard Malamud
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Malamud, Bernard/ Davis, Philip (EDT)
EAN	9781598532937
ISBN	1598532936
Label	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	992
PublicationDate	2014-02-27
Publisher	Library of America
ReleaseDate	2014-02-27
Studio	Library of America

Bernard Malamud: Novels & Stories of the 1960s (Library of America)