Author:
Malamud, Bernard, author.
ImprintNew York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2013]
Description916 pages ; 21 cm.
Note:A new life -- The fixer -- Source of The Fixer -- Pictures of Fidelman: an exhibition -- Ten stories.
Note:"Fusing modernist daring with traditional storytelling in a profoundly original and distinctive literary style, Bernard Malamud was one of postwar America's essential voices. This volume collects three novels of the 1960s. In A New Life (1961), set in the Pacific Northwest, native New Yorker Seymour Levin finds himself confronted not only with a new landscape but with erotic intrigue, university politics, and an appointment that isn't quite what he'd expected it to be. The Fixer (1966) is the gripping saga of a Jew imprisioned in prerevolutionary Russia after being falsely accused of murdering a twelve-year-old boy. The episodic novel-in-stories Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition (1969) follows the comic misadventures, sexual and otherwise, of a failed American painter in Italy. Ten unforgettable stories round out this collection, in which Malamud shows himself the heir to Hawthorne, Chekhov, and Kafka, and at his best -- as in "Idiots First," "The Jewbird," "The German Refugee" -- their equal.--Publisher's note
