One of America's great baseball novels, THE NATURAL is the story of venerable ballplayer Roy Hobbs, who was forced out of the game when he was young but returns to baseball to pull the New York Knights out of their slump. Malamud has said of this novel: "Baseball had interested me, especially its comic aspects, but I wasn't able to write about the ...
Malamud's novel is based on the case of a Jewish worker in Russia who is accused of murder, and his subsequent treatment at the hands of the law and the public.
This is the story of Morris Bober, a goodhearted immigrant shopkeeper in New York City, who, after being robbed by two men, unwittingly hires one of the thieves to be his assistant.
Cohn, the sole human survivor of a nuclear holocaust, is adrift on the oceans. The other survivor is a chimpanzee, also aboard the research vessel, and the two drift to an island. The chimp has been taught to talk and both Cohn and the chimpanzee work together to survive.
An anthology of Bernard Malamud's short stories, as well some of his writings on literature and the literary process. One of the most accomplished and highly regarded American writers of the postwar period, Malamud is considered a master of the short story form.
Malamud's first collection, set in New York City and in Italy, established him as an important writer. From its publication in 1958, THE MAGIC BARREL has been acclaimed as one of the definitive literary works about the immigrant experience.
Bernard Malamud gave his first interview in 1958, his last in 1986. During the intervening twenty-eight years he was formally interviewed at least forty times. This book collects twenty-eight of the best interviews, ranging from brief conversations with journalists to more extended and leisurely conversations with academics and writers. Winner of ...
In Malamud's comic novel, two writers are at odds: one an angst-ridden Jewish novelist, the other a militant black man writing an anti-Semitic polemic.
Contains the stories "The Silver Crown," "The Man in the Drawer," "The Letter," "In Retirement," "Rembrandt's Hat," "Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party," "My Son, the Murderer," and "Talking Horse."
Kiev, in the years before World War I, is a hotbed of anti-Semitism. When a 12-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is made against the Jews. Yokov Bok, a carpenter, is blamed, arrested and imprisoned without indictment.
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