Well that was depressing. There may have been a time or two I have been this relieved that I have finally finished a book, but it hasn't happened often. It was such a relief to close that book knowing I never have to open it again. I know that "The Fixer" has won both the National Book Award ...
Paleologist Calvin Cohn, this novel's protagonist was studying the bottom of the ocean when the Second Flood struck. The flood is due to the thermonuclear war brought about by the Cold War (this novel was first published in 1982) and God willed the total anihilation of men on earth. However, God ...
Long ago, a creative writing teacher recommended this book to me. I've finally read it, and in turn I highly recommend it. Malamud shows a mastery of prose and an immense talent for description. His passages describing the changing seasons are incredible!At first, the author's tendency to bend th...
Publicado en http://lecturaylocura.com/los-inquili...Ya hablé de Bernard Malamud en esta reseña de otra novela suya. En este caso, y gracias a la misma editorial podemos gozar nuevamente de otra muestra de su buen hacer; la sencillez argumental de la novela “Los inquilinos” esconde sin embargo un...
An interesting tale by a great writer. It's a first novel, much simpler than some of Malamud's other work, the dialogue a little awkward, but perhaps intentionally so. Do not read further if you don't like spoilers. It is hard to say anything about this novel without giving away pivotal events.**...
Close to where I live is a very cluttered antique shop. It is actually a house and every room is packed to the brim with odds and ends. At the back is a room full of second hand books. One wall is covered floor to ceiling with old penguin books, many of them first editions. They cost between £1 a...
Having now read the first three of Bernard Malamud's eight novels, I am less than halfway to knowing him as a novelist. Already I have developed a strong affinity for him. He is drawn to creating stories of how men acquire wisdom through suffering, also a major concern of my father's, and you cou...
Idiots First Black is My Favorite Color Still Life The Death of Me A Choice of Profession Life is Better than Death The Jewbird Naked Nude The Cost of Living The Maid's Shoes Suppose a Wedding The German Refugee
For the last two weeks in December Morris averaged an unusual one hundred and ninety. Ida had a new theory to explain the spurt of business: an apartment house had opened for rentals a few blocks away; furthermore, she had heard that Schmitz was not so attentive to his store as he was before. An ...
The ambulance doctor, the same who had treated him after the holdup, said he had got up too soon last time and worn himself out. He again bandaged the grocer’s head, saying to Ida, “This time let him lay in bed a good couple of weeks till his strength comes back.” “You tell him, doctor,” she begg...
Also new were his gum-soled oxblood shoes, a tweed suit he had on despite the late-September sun slanting hot in the Roman sky, although there was a lighter one in his bag; and a dacron shirt and set of cotton-dacron underwear, good for quick and easy washing for the traveler. His suitcase, a bul...