Bernard Malamud: 30 books

Book cover of A New Life

A New Life

A Novel

by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004

"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...
Book cover of God's Grace

God's Grace

A Novel

by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005

God's Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood -- a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's protagonist is paleolosist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending to his work...
Book cover of A Malamud Reader
by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1967

This volume presents between the covers of a single book the range and scope of one of the most distinguished writers in America, Bernard Malamud. A Malamud Reader contains the complete text of The Assistant, his novel of love and redemption in Brooklyn; ten stories from The Magic Barrel and...
Book cover of The Stories of Bernard Malamud
by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1983

Compassionate and profound in their wry humor, this collection of stories captures the poetry of human relationships at the point where reality and imagination meet.
Book cover of The Complete Stories
by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

New York Times Notable Book of the Year Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997 With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover....
Book cover of The Natural

The Natural

A Novel

by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003

Introduction by Kevin Baker The 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...
Book cover of The Assistant

The Assistant

A Novel

by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003

The Assistant, Bernard 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...
Book cover of Il barile magico
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 19, 2011

Un umile ciabattino polacco che sogna un futuro migliore per la sua unica figlia; un pensionato che lotta disperatamente contro uno sfratto ingiusto; un sarto ebreo che ritrova la fede grazie alla visita di un angelo nero: sono alcuni dei personaggi che popolano Il barile magico, la prima raccolta...
Book cover of Per me non esiste altro. La letteratura come dono, lezioni di scrittura
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 4, 2015

Bernard Malamud ha consacrato tutta la sua vita alla scrittura. Ha esordito con Il migliore e anni dopo ha vinto il National Book Award. Alla narrativa ha affiancato la professione di insegnante di scrittura presso prestigiose università americane. Le lezioni agli studenti, le interviste e i saggi...
Book cover of Il commesso
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 19, 2013

Pubblicato negli Stati Uniti nel 1957, Il commesso è considerato da molti il capolavoro di Bernard Malamud. La storia è quella di Morris Bober, umile commerciante ebreo che nel cuore di Manhattan conduce una vita misera e consumata dagli anni, e di Frank Alpine, un ladruncolo di origini italiane,...
Book cover of The Magic Barrel
by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego,...
Book cover of Prima gli idioti
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 2, 2012

Prima gli idioti, pubblicato originariamente nel 1963, è, dopo Il barile magico, la raccolta che confermò l’eccezionale talento di Bernard Malamud nella forma della short story. Alcuni dei racconti che contiene sono a tutt’oggi considerati fra i suoi capolavori. Un uccello ebreo che parla (in...
Book cover of Le vite di Dubin
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 23, 2011

Riproposto finalmente oggi, a trentanni dalla sua prima pubblicazione nel 1979, questo romanzo è considerato uno dei migliori usciti dalla penna di Bernard Malamud. È la storia di William Dubin, biografo di mezza età, che vive una vita tranquilla insieme alla moglie in un piccolo centro di campagna...
Book cover of Il cappello di Rembrandt
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 15, 2015

Accanto ai suoi romanzi maggiori, Bernard Malamud ha sperimentato con successo la misura del racconto, in cui ha inscenato delle variazioni dei temi che gli sono cari: la fatica, la solitudine, la sconfitta, ma anche un’appassionata speranza di riscatto e di fede, accompagnata da una carica decantatrice...
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