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  The Assistant

  by Bernard Malamud

  Introduction by Jonathan Rosen 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 for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls... (more)
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  God's Grace

  by Bernard Malamud

  "Malamud's vision is personal, original, and almost wholly unrelated to the most characteristic or normative Jewish thought and tradition. As for Malamud's style, it too is a perculiar (and dazzling) invention." --Harold Bloom God's Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood---and, as such, a radical departure... (more)
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  Rembrandt's Hat

  by Bernard Malamud

• Idiot's First.Bernard MALAMUD

  

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  Idiot's First.

  by Bernard MALAMUD

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  The Tenants

  by Bernard Malamud

• The FixerBernard Malamud

  

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  The Fixer

  by Bernard Malamud

• The NaturalBernard Malamud

  

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  The Natural

  by Bernard Malamud

• The Magic BarrelBernard Malamud

  

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  The Magic Barrel

  by Bernard Malamud

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  God's Grace

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• A New LifeBernard Malamud

  

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  A New Life

  by Bernard Malamud

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  The Assistant

  by Bernard Malamud

  192 pages, The story of a strange & terrible passion between a girl who wanted love & the thief who stole from her father
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  Pictures of Fidelman

  by Bernard Malamud

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  The Fixer: A Novel

  by Bernard Malamud

  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... (more)