Research Catalog

Title

Novels and stories of the 1940s & 50s / Bernard Malamud ; Philip Davis, editor.

Author

Malamud, Bernard

Publication

• New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2013]
• ©2013

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Davis, Philip (Philip Maurice)

Description

712 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

Raised in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants, and coming of age in Depression-era New York, Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) began his career writing stories of unsparing precision and power, plumbing the depths of an impoverished urban world. His early, naturalistic style evolved into an inventive, often surreal idiom that blurs reality and fantasy. His first novel, The Natural (1952), is a dazzling reimagining of the possibilities of sports fiction, and it remains one of the greatest and most beloved novels about baseball ever written. In The Assistant (1957), Malamud created a searing drama of guilt and redemption about a struggling grocer's family and the mysterious drifter who comes to rob, and then to work at, his store, transforming all of their lives in unforeseen ways. Joining these novels are twenty-six short stories, ranging from the early tale "Armistice," set in Brooklyn during the troubling weeks of the German invasion of France in 1940, to one of his deepest and most celebrated stories, "The Magic Barrel," a deep fable about a rabbinical student and the matchmaker who leads him to an utterly unexpected bride.

Series Statement

The Library of America ; 248

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections
• Library of America ; 248.

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Malamud, novels and stories of the 1940s & 50s
• Bernard Malamud, novels and stories of the 1940s & 50s

Subjects

• Short stories, American
• Jewish families > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
• Baseball players > United States > Fiction
• Grocers > New York (State) > New York > Fiction

Genre/Form

Short stories, American.

Note

• "The natural; The assistant; twenty stories; posthumously published stories."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The natural -- The assistant -- A note to my Norwegian readers -- Twenty stories. Benefit performance -- The place is different now -- Steady customer -- The literary life of Laban Goldman -- The cost of living -- The prison -- The first seven years -- The death of me -- The bill -- An apology -- The loan -- The girl of my dreams -- The magic barrel -- The mourners -- Angel Levine -- A summer's reading -- Take pity -- The lady of the lake -- Behold the key -- The maid's shoes -- Posthumously published stories. Armistice -- Spring rain -- The grocery store -- A confession of murder -- Riding pants -- The elevator.

Call Number

PS221

ISBN

• 9781598532920
• 1598532928

LCCN

2013941528

OCLC

852221422

Author

Malamud, Bernard, author.

Title

Novels and stories of the 1940s & 50s / Bernard Malamud ; Philip Davis, editor.

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Library of America ; 248

Library of America ; 248.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Davis, Philip (Philip Maurice), editor.

Malamud, Bernard. Natural.

Malamud, Bernard. Assistant.

Malamud, Bernard. Short stories. Selections.

Malamud, Bernard. Novels. Selections.

Spine Title

Malamud, novels and stories of the 1940s & 50s

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 248