Research Catalog

Title

Novels and stories of the 1960s / Bernard Malamud ; Philip Davis, editor.

Author

Malamud, Bernard

Publication

• New York : The Library of America, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davis, Philip (Philip Maurice)
• Malamud, Bernard.

Description

916 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

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 Ozick and Philip Roth most notably among them. The second volume of the Library of America'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 author'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 isn't quite what he had expected it to be. The Fixer (1966) is the gripping saga of a Jew imprisoned in pre-Revolutionary Russia after being falsely accused of the ritual murder of a twelve-year-old boy. The novel-in-stories 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 best--"Idiots First," "The Jewbird," "The German Refugee"--their equal.

Series Statement

The Library of America ; 249

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections
• Library of America ; 249.

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Bernard Malamud, novels and stories of the 1960s
• Malamud : novels and stories of the 1960s

Subjects

• Jews > Russia > Fiction
• College teachers > Northwest, Pacific > Fiction
• Short stories, American

Genre/Form

Short stories, American.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

A new life -- The fixer -- Source of The fixer -- Pictures of Fidelman : an exhibition. Last Mohican ; Still life ; Naked nude ; A pimp's revenge ; Pictures of the artist ; Glass blower of Venice -- Ten stories. Idiots first ; Suppose a wedding (a scene of a play) ; The Jewbird ; Life is better than death ; Black is my favorite color ; The German refugee ; A choice of profession ; Man in the drawer ; My son the murderer ; An exorcism.

Call Number

PS221

ISBN

• 9781598532937
• 1598532936

LCCN

2013941527

OCLC

852221419

Author

Malamud, Bernard, author.

Title

Novels and stories of the 1960s / Bernard Malamud ; Philip Davis, editor.

Publisher

New York : The Library of America, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Library of America ; 249

Library of America ; 249.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Davis, Philip (Philip Maurice), editor.

Malamud, Bernard. New life.

Malamud, Bernard. Fixer.

Malamud, Bernard. Pictures of Fidelman.

Malamud, Bernard. Novels. Selections. 2013.

Malamud, Bernard. Short stories. Selections. 2013.

Spine Title

Malamud : novels and stories of the 1960s

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 249