Bernard Malamud: Novels & Stories of the 1960s (LOA #249): A

Bernard Malamud: Novels & Stories of the 1960s (LOA #249): A New Life / The Fixer / Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition / stories (Library of America Bernard Malamud Edition)

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
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2014-02-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598532937

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2014-02-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598532937

Bernard Malamud: Novels & Stories of the 1960s (LOA #249): A New Life / The Fixer / Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition / stories (Library of America Bernard Malamud Edition)

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