Bernard Malamud: 30 books

Book cover of The Fixer

The Fixer

A Novel

by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004

The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The 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...
Book cover of Rembrandt's Hat
by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1973

This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes: The Silver Crown Man in the Drawer The Letter In Retirement Rembrandt's Hat Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party My Son the Murderer Talking Horse
Book cover of Ethics, Literature, and Theory

Ethics, Literature, and Theory

An Introductory Reader

by Dudley Barlow, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
Book cover of The Tenants

The Tenants

A Novel

by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003

With a new introduction by Aleksandar Hemon In 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...
Book cover of Idiots First
by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1963

This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes: Idiots First Black Is My Favorite Color Still Life The Death of Me A Choice of Profession Life Is Better Than Death The Jewbird Naked Nude The Cost of Living The Maid's Shoes Suppose a Wedding The German Refugee
Book cover of Dubin's Lives

Dubin's Lives

A Novel

by Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003

With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon Dubin'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...
Book cover of Il Popolo
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2016

Nel leggendario Far West, Yozip, venditore ambulante ebreo e falegname occasionale, viene rapito da una tribù di pellerossa vessata dagli attacchi dei colonizzatori. Nominato quasi suo malgrado guida della tribù, diventa Capo Jozip: un «vero indiano ebreo» incaricato di condurre il Popolo nell’esodo...
Book cover of Dio mio, grazie
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 16, 2017

Riemerso da una spedizione in fondo all’oceano, il paleontologo ebreo Calvin Cohn scopre con sgomento che nel frattempo la Terra è stata colpita da un secondo diluvio universale. Per un «minuscolo errore» di Dio, Calvin è l’unico uomo a essere sopravvissuto. Si ritrova così naufrago su un’isola...
Book cover of The People

The People

And Other Uncollected Fiction

by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1989

Includes Malamud's novel, The People, which was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1986, with the text presented as the author left it, as well as fourteen previously uncollected stories. Set in the nineteenth century, The People has as its hero a Jewish peddler who is adopted as chief by an Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest.
Book cover of Pictures of Fidelman
by Bernard Malamud
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011

This is the story in art of the painter Arthur Fidelman, born in the Bronx and spending years of his life in Italy--Rome, Milan, Florence and Venice--pursuing his tumultuous career through adventure and misadventure. What perhaps saved him from disaster (Fidelman is a comic hero whose every next step...
Book cover of L'uomo di Kiev
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 10, 2014

Basato su una vicenda realmente accaduta, L’uomo di Kiev è la storia di uno sconcertante caso giudiziario. È il 1911 e la Russia zarista è attraversata da frequenti scoppi di violenza antisemita. Yakov Bok è un ebreo che si guadagna da vivere come tuttofare; lasciato dalla moglie, cerca fortuna...
Book cover of Il migliore
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 23, 2011

Roy Hobbs è potenzialmente un eroe: ha un talento innato per il baseball e potrebbe diventare il più grande giocatore del momento. Ma il suo primo tentativo di entrare a far parte di una squadra della major league fallisce miseramente, a causa di una ragazza fuori di testa. Roy riesce a coronare...
Book cover of Gli inquilini
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 12, 2018

"Gli inquilini", pubblicato originariamente nel 1971, è la storia di Harry Lesser, l’ultimo occupante di una decrepita palazzina di New York che deve essere abbattuta per far posto a un condominio di lusso. Nonostante i goffi tentativi di sfratto da parte del proprietario, Lesser non...
Book cover of Una nuova vita
by Bernard Malamud
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 23, 2011

S. Levin, timido insegnante di letteratura, si trasferisce in un piccolo college della remota provincia americana per sfuggire al caos di New York e a un passato di alcolismo e di sbando. Tra i boschi del selvaggio Oregon spera di trovare una nuova dimensione esistenziale, un nuovo impulso alla propria...
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