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  • 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

    $0.99 USD

  • 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

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $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

  • The Stories of Bernard Malamud

    Compassionate and profound in their wry humor, this collection of stories captures the poetry of human relationships at the point where reality and imagination meet. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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 People

    And Uncollected Stories

    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. ... Read more

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  • A Malamud Reader

    This volume presents between the covers of a single book the range and scope of one of the most distinguished writers in America, Bernard Malamud.A Malamud Reader contains the complete text of The Assistant, his novel of love and redemption in Brooklyn; ten stories from The Magic Barrel and Idiots First; three journeys--to Chicago, from The Natural; to the coast, from A New Life; and to Kiev, from ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • Ethics, Literature, and Theory

    An Introductory Reader

    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 literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Bernard Malamud Reading “The Mourners” from The Magic Barrel

    From Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 2

    Narrated by Bernard Malamud ...
    Series Audiobook 0 - The Great American Authors Read from Their Works Series

    Unabridged

    16 min

    "The Mourners" comes from Malamud's National Book Award–winning collection, The Magic Barrel, about poor immigrant Jews—grocers, tailors, janitors, cobblers—whose suffering transcends the particular to become universal. Set in a cheap rooming house whose landlord and janitor join forces to evict a poor and aged Jewish tenant, the story ends with Gruber, the landlord, morally transformed by the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Vol. 2

    Series Audiobook 2 - The Great American Authors Read from Their Works Series

    Unabridged

    1 hour 14 min

    These four recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literary heritage.Nelson Algren reads from his most famous novel, The Man with the Golden Arm, about the decline and fall of a drug dealer and card sharp. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD