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The Fixer
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The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: May 5th, 2004
- Pages: 335
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.26in - 5.54in - 0.90in - 0.69lb
- EAN: 9780374529383
- Categories: • Literary• Jewish• Classics
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Bernard Malamud, born #OTD in 1914, was, said Saul Bellow, “a rich original of the first rank.” Winner of two National Book Awards (for 1958’s “The Magic Barrel” and 1966’s “The Fixer”) and a Pulitzer (for “The Fixer”), he also wrote the classic baseball novel “The Natural.” https://t.co/WKvVOOYkrG
Author 15 books, recently children's picture books Lemily by the Sea and CS & DD. Psychiatrist, Poet, essayist, novelist, 100's letters! Happily married. He/him
favourite poet: Elizabeth Bishop tied with Wislawa Szymborska, though Eliot/Pound and Richard Wilbur ain't half-bad. Favourite prose authors: Bernard Malamud (The Fixer, The Natural, Dubin's Lives, The Assistant) Saul Bellow #BookRecommendations #WritingCommunity #poetrytwitter https://t.co/gk2xWyKgRa
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Praise for this book
"Brilliant [and] harrowing . . . Historical reality combined with fictional skill and beauty of a high order make [it] a novel of startling importance." --Elizabeth Hardwick, Vogue
"What makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity...This novel, like all great novels reminds us that we must do something." --Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated
"The Fixer deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth." --The Independent (London)
"A literary event in any season." --Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times
What people are saying
Nonprofit publisher dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing.
Bernard Malamud, born #OTD in 1914, was, said Saul Bellow, “a rich original of the first rank.” Winner of two National Book Awards (for 1958’s “The Magic Barrel” and 1966’s “The Fixer”) and a Pulitzer (for “The Fixer”), he also wrote the classic baseball novel “The Natural.” https://t.co/WKvVOOYkrG
Author 15 books, recently children's picture books Lemily by the Sea and CS & DD. Psychiatrist, Poet, essayist, novelist, 100's letters! Happily married. He/him
favourite poet: Elizabeth Bishop tied with Wislawa Szymborska, though Eliot/Pound and Richard Wilbur ain't half-bad. Favourite prose authors: Bernard Malamud (The Fixer, The Natural, Dubin's Lives, The Assistant) Saul Bellow #BookRecommendations #WritingCommunity #poetrytwitter https://t.co/gk2xWyKgRa