{"product_id":"bernard-malamud-novels-and-stories-of-the-1970s-80s-loa-367-the-tenants-dubins-lives-gods-grace-stories-other-writings-hardcover","title":"Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s \u0026 80s (Loa #367): The Tenants \/ Dubin's Lives \/ God's Grace \/ Stories \u0026 Other Writings - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBernard Malamud\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePhilip Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe late novels and stories of America's greatest myth-maker and chronicler of the Jewish American experience\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Is Malamud an American Master? Of course. He not only wrote in the American language, he augmented it with fresh plasticity, he shaped our English into startling new configurations.\" \u003cb\u003e--Cynthia Ozick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] short-story writer who is better than any of them, including myself.\"\u003cb\u003e --Flannery O'Connor\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe long-awaited third and final volume of Library of America's edition of Bernard Malamud's writings brings together three novels and thirteen stories of the 1970s and 80s that reaffirm his place in the American pantheon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tenants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1971) chronicles the growing tensions between two male writers--one Jewish, the other Black--who are the only inhabitants of a crumbling Manhattan tenement house. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDubin's Lives\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1976) is a fascinating portrait of a middle-aged biographer who becomes involved with a woman half his age while researching a life of D.H. Lawrence--an affair that unsettles things in expected and unexpected ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod's Grace\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1982) is a wildly inventive, darkly humorous postapocalyptic novel whose cast includes the lone human survivor of the Day of Devastation, a group of talking chimps, and other (speechless) primates--who try to establish a New Covenant with God. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories in this volume confirm Malamud as a master storyteller, from the Kafkaesque unbridled fantasy of \"Talking Horse\" to the final \"fictive biographies\" of \"In Kew Gardens,\" about Virginia Woolf, and \"Alma Redeemed,\" about the Austrian composer Alma Mahler. Rounding out the volume are \"Long Work, Short Life,\" Malamud's hard-to-find \"casual memoir\" about his writing life, and the previously unpublished \"A Lost Bar-Mitzvah,\" a poignant sketch of Malamud's own childhood. This deluxe edition includes a chronology of Malamud's life and career and detailed notes by Malamud biographer Philip Davis.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Malamud\u003c\/b\u003e (1914-1986) was the author of such acclaimed novels as \u003ci\u003eThe Natural\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Assistant\u003c\/i\u003e and a prolific master of the short story. His first short story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Barrel\u003c\/i\u003e, won the National Book Award, and his 1966 novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Fixer\u003c\/i\u003e, about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1988, the annual PEN\/Malamud award was created in his honor to recognize excellence in the art of the short story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Davis, \u003c\/b\u003e editor, is the author of the definitive biography \u003ci\u003eBernard Malamud: A Writer's Life \u003c\/i\u003e(2010). He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and Director of the Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems, University of Liverpool. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 900\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45816108024005,"sku":"9781598537451","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/xFxp_QpIx59781598537451.webp?v=1771027923","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/bernard-malamud-novels-and-stories-of-the-1970s-80s-loa-367-the-tenants-dubins-lives-gods-grace-stories-other-writings-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}