Author: Bernard Malamud
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: novel, assistant
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-07-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374504849
ISBN-13: 9780374504847

Introduction by Jonathan RosenBernard Malamud’s second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who “wants better” for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store.Like Malamud’s best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances

Author: Bernard Malamud
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: novel, fixer
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-05-05
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0374529388
ISBN-13: 9780374529383

A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardThe Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud’s best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the bo

Author: Bernard Malamud
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: tenants
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2003-09-18
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0374521026
ISBN-13: 9780374521028

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 tenement, Henry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building. Henry and Willie are artistic rivals and unwilling neighbors, and their uneasy peace is disturbed by the presence of Willie’s white girlfriend Irene a

Author: Bernard Malamud
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: life, new
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-09-13
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0374529493
ISBN-13: 9780374529499

"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 a place of personal reinvention.When Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves the city for the Pacific Northwest to start over, it’s no surprise that he conjures a vision of the extraordinary new life awaiting him there: "He imagined the pioneers in covered wagons entering this valley for the first time

Author: Bernard Malamud
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: natural
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2003-07-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374502005
ISBN-13: 9780374502003

The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud’s first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material—the story of a superbly gifted “natural” at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era—and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best w

Author: Bernard Malamud
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: stories, barrel, magic
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2003-07-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374525862
ISBN-13: 9780374525866

Authors:Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon,
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: lives, dubin
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2003-09-18
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0374528829
ISBN-13: 9780374528829

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 of all."Its protagonist is one of Malamud’s finest characters; prize-winning biographer William Dubin, who learns from lives, or thinks he does: those he writes, those he shares, the life he lives. Now in his later middle age, he seeks his own secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the obsession of love--love