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Title: The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud ISBN: 0-374-52575-7 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best short story writer of the 20th Century
Comment: Nobody comes close to Bernard Malamud as master of the short story in the 20th Century. As roll-overs from the 19th Century Thomas Mann and Henry James come pretty close but only pretty close.Its easier to write late Victorian and mal du siecle
stories than the less formalized stories of the common man who
frequents Malamud tales of the grubby depression-shocked heros
of the 30s and 40s.
Rating: 2
Summary: Depressing
Comment: While Malamud is without doubt a very skilled writer, I gave up attempting to read this book approximately 1/3 of the way through it. The atmosphere of the book was overwhelmingly dour and depressing: story after story of loneliness, poverty, bleakness, bitterness, struggle, alienation from family. It leaves one ready to jump off a bridge somewhere.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rich characters and wonderful prose
Comment: This is the first time I read Malamud based off a recommendation from my well read grandfather. I asked him who are the best modern Jewish fiction writers. Bellows, Roth, and Malamud are definitely the best he noted. I was very impressed by the depth of all of the characters introduced in this novel and I was especially pleased at the constant reappearance of an artist down on his luck but completely in love with making art. And that is exactly what Malamud does - create art.
Many of his characters are the outcast types that feel like outsiders hardly understand them and their passions (we've all felt that way at times haven't we?) Many of the protagonists are writers, artists, store owners, janitors - an ordinary walk of life. I recommend this book despite the incoherency of the last couple short stories - but don't worry the 50something before it are wonderful.
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Title: Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud ISBN: 0374528829 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Tenants by Bernard Malamud ISBN: 0374521026 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Bernard Malamud ISBN: 0140185151 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Assistant: A Novel by Bernard Malamud ISBN: 0374504849 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub. Date: 07 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics) by Richard Pevear, Nikolai Gogol, Larissa Volokhonsky ISBN: 0375706151 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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