The Fixer: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the awards of The Fixer: A Novel Friday, October 16 2009.

• Added an award: Pulitzer Prize
• Added category of an award: Pulitzer Prize Fiction
• Added year of an award: Pulitzer Prize 1967

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 56 books, including The Fixer: A Novel, Friday, October 16 2009.

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 75 books, including The Fixer: A Novel, Monday, October 12 2009.

Amanda L edited the quotations of The Fixer: A Novel Monday, September 14 2009.

• Added a quotation: “If the state acts in ways that are abhorrent to human nature it's the lesser evil to destroy it.”Yakov Bok quoting Spinoza

Shelfari edited the description of The Fixer: A Novel Sunday, August 2 2009.

• A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award 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 for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Fixer: A Novel Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Bernard Malamud: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Fixer: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running somewhere early that morning, everybody in the same direction.