The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791490122
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud by : Evelyn Avery

Download or read book The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud written by Evelyn Avery and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the best literary tradition, Bernard Malamud uses the particular experiences of his subjects—Eastern European Jews, immigrant Americans, and urban African Americans—to express the universal. This book offers an exploration of this beloved American writer's fiction, which has won two National Book Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. In addition to the literary studies, personal recollections by son Paul Malamud, memoirs and portraits by good friends, colleagues, and fellow writers such as Cynthia Ozick, Daniel Stern, and Nicolas Delbanco illuminate Malamud's life and work. The contributors reveal that in an age that deconstructs, Malamud's voice does not. Instead, it speaks clearly and imaginatively with the weight of ancient traditions and the understanding of modern conditions.

The Magic Barrel

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 146680551X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Barrel written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award: “Every one of [the stories] is a small, highly individualized work of art.” —The Chicago Tribune With an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Namesake 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, the struggling New York Jewish Painter Arthur Fidelman, roams amid the ruins of old Europe in search of his artistic patrimony. The stories tell of egg candlers and shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and literary inventiveness. A high point in the history of the modern American short story, The Magic Barrel is a fiction collection which, at its heart, is about the immigrant experience. Few books of any kind have managed to depict struggle and frustration and heartbreak with such delight, or such artistry. “Malamud possesses a gift for characterization that is often breathtaking. . . .[His] fiction bubbles with life.” —New York Times “[Malamud] has been called the Jewish Hawthorne, but he might just as well be thought a Jewish Chopin, a prose composer of preludes and noctures.” —Partisan Review

The Tenants

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466804971
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Tenants written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building. Henry and Willie are artistic rivals and unwilling neighbors, and their uneasy peace is disturbed by the presence of Willie's white girlfriend Irene and the landlord Levenspiel's attempts to evict both men and demolish the building. This novel's conflict, current then, is perennial now; it reveals the slippery nature of the human condition, and the human capacity for violence and undoing.

Idiots First

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374174202
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Idiots First written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories and a scene from a play.

The Stories of Bernard Malamud

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374270376
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Stories of Bernard Malamud written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1983-10 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories by the twentieth century American author.

The Assistant

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374504847
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Assistant written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italian American, works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood where he develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.

Bernard Malamud

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199270090
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Bernard Malamud by : Philip Davis

Download or read book Bernard Malamud written by Philip Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period. The time is ripe for a revival of interest in a man who at the peak of his success stood alongside Saul Bellow and Philip Roth in the ranks of Jewish American writers. Nothing came easily to Malamud: his family was poor, his mother probably committed suicide when Malamud was 14, and his younger brother inherited her schizophrenia. Malamud did everything the second time round - re-using his life in his writing, even as he revised draft after draft. Davis's meticulous biography shows all that it meant for this man to be a writer in terms of both the uses of and the costs to his own life. It also restores Bernard Malamud's literary reputation as one of the great original voices of his generation, a writer of superb subtlety and clarity. Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life benefits from Philip Davis's exclusive interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, unfettered access to private journals and letters, and detailed analysis of Malamud's working methods through the examination of hitherto unresearched manuscripts. It is very much a writer's life. It is also the story of a struggling emotional man, using an extraordinary but long-worked-for gift, in order to give meaning to ordinary human life.

My Father is a Book

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619022001
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis My Father is a Book by : Janna Malamud Smith

Download or read book My Father is a Book written by Janna Malamud Smith and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Malamud was one of the most accomplished American novelists of the postwar years. From the Pulitzer Prize winner The Fixer as well as The Assistant, named one of the best "100 All–Time Novels" by Time Magazine—to mention only two of the more than a dozen published books—he not only established himself in the first rank of American writers but also took the country's literature in new and important directions. In her signature memoir, Smith explores her renowned father's life and literary legacy. Malamud was among the most brilliant novelists of his era, and counted among his friends Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Theodore Roethke, and Shirley Jackson. Yet Malamud was also very private. Only his family has had full access to his personal papers, including letters and journals that offer unique insight into the man and his work. In her candid, evocative, and loving memoir, his daughter brings Malamud to vivid life.

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192445
Total Pages : 1581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

The Natural

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446419126
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Natural written by Bernard Malamud and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an immense natural gift for playing baseball. He could become one of the great ones of the game, a player unmatched in his time - a hero. But his first hard-won big chance ends violently, at the hands of a crazy girl, and then it is years before he gets another shot. At last, in a few short seasons, or never, he must achieve the towering reputation that he feels is his right.

Companion to Literature

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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143812743X
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Companion to Literature by : Abby H. P. Werlock

Download or read book Companion to Literature written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."

God's Grace

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374529673
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book God's Grace written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malamud's vision is personal, original, and almost wholly unrelated to the most characteristic or normative Jewish thought and tradition.

A Study Guide for Bernard Malamud's "Idiots First"

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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410349160
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Bernard Malamud's "Idiots First" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Bernard Malamud's "Idiots First," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for Bernard Malamud's "Black Is My Favorite Color"

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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410341445
Total Pages : 33 pages
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Download or read book A Study Guide for Bernard Malamud's "Black Is My Favorite Color" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literature and Law

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401201315
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book Literature and Law written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been a continuing and persistent world-wide interest in the interaction between the two disciplines of law and literature. Although there have been many collections of primary texts that combined these two areas, this volume presents literary analyses and criticism in an attempt to assess the varied relationships between law and justice, between lawyers and clients, and between readers’ perceptions and authors’ intent, hopefully suggesting why they have continually been yoked together. One similarity between the two is that lawyers, like writers, must catch their audience’s attention by novelty of scene, distinctiveness of voice, and ingenuity of design. Furthermore, legal advocates must recreate a concrete sense of reality, developing vivid and valid pictures of a specific time and place. In short, both lawyers and writers attempt to provide a basis for juries / readers to judge defendants / characters by their motivations and their actions and to decide whether a favorable ruling / assessment is justified. Collectively, the essays in this book are designed to deal with themes of guilt and innocence, right and wrong, morality and legality. The essays also suggest that the world as it is delineated by lawyers is indeed a text that like its literary counterparts sometimes blurs the distinction between fact and fiction as it attempts to define “truth” and to establish criteria for “impartial” justice. By exploring interdisciplinary contexts, readers will surely be made more aware, more sensitive to the roles that stories play in the legal profession and to the dilemmas faced by legal systems that often succeed in maintaining the rights and privileges of a dominant societal group at the expense of a less powerful one.

Magic Words

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639360484
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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What Happened to Abraham?

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139013
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis What Happened to Abraham? by : Victoria Aarons

Download or read book What Happened to Abraham? written by Victoria Aarons and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction examines the ways in which contemporary American Jewish writers reinvent and reconfigure stories of the Hebraic covenant as a way of conceiving, negotiating, and redefining Jewish identity in America. In attempting to locate a place for Jewish identity at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, American Jewish writers look to an imaginary memory to reengage a defining, central Jewish history that has, post-World War II, become diluted in American culture.