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  • The Fixer

    A Novel

    Series series FSG Classics
    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 in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed ... Read more

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  • The Natural

    A Novel

    Series series FSG Classics
    The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe 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 material—the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Magic Barrel

    Stories

    Winner of the National Book Award: "Every one of [the stories] is a small, highly individualized work of art." — The Chicago TribuneWith an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The NamesakeBernard 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, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Idiots First

    Series series FSG Classics
    This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes:Idiots FirstBlack Is My Favorite ColorStill LifeThe Death of MeA Choice of ProfessionLife Is Better Than DeathThe JewbirdNaked NudeThe Cost of LivingThe Maid's ShoesSuppose a WeddingThe German Refugee ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Magic Barrel, The

    Unabridged

    27 min

    From the author of The Natural comes a classic short story about a young rabbinical student and his fateful encounter with an enigmatic matchmaker. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater.Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.Adapted and Directed by Arnold AprillProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergShelley Berman as SalzmanDavid Cromer ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Assistant

    A Novel

    A Brooklyn grocer's life is turned upside down by an enigmatic assistant in this celebrated novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Fixer.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 ... Read more

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  • The Complete Stories

    New York Times Notable Book of the YearP ublishers Weekly Best Book of 1997With 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. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the book as they might a displaced person in one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rembrandt's Hat

    This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes:The Silver CrownMan in the DrawerThe LetterIn RetirementRembrandt's HatNotes from a Lady at a Dinner PartyMy Son the MurdererTalking Horse ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Tenants

    With a new introduction by Aleksandar HemonIn 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 ... Read more

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  • A New Life

    "An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan LethemIn 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 Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves the city for the Pacific Northwest to ... Read more

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  • Dubin's Lives

    With a new introduction by Thomas MallonDubin'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 is one of Malamud's finest characters; prize-winning biographer William Dubin, who learns from lives, or thinks he does: those ... Read more

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  • Pictures of Fidelman

    An aspiring artist embarks on a comic misadventure in this classic from a Pulitzer Prize–winning and two-time National Book Award–winning author."Tremendously funny, deeply moving, brilliantly written . . . Malamud again proves he is one of America's most precious natural resources." — Chicago TribuneArthur Fidelman, Bronx-born and raised, is a self-confessed failure as a painter. When he goes to ... Read more

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