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1) The fixer
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
"The fixer" of this novel is Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman. He lives in Tsarist Russia, and when the body of a dead gentile boy is found in a cave, Yakov is arrested for a crime he did not commit. In the long suffering that follows his refusal to "confess," Yakow is transformed from a little man into a big one.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 249
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Through his distinctive fusion of modernist daring and traditional storytelling, Bernard Malamud became one of postwar America's most important writers, his work an inspiration for and lasting influence on novelists who have come after him, Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth most notably among them. The second volume of the Library of America's Malamud edition brings together three novels of the 1960s: A New Life (1961), a satiric campus novel set in the...
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