The Complete Stories - Softcover

Malamud, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099277344 ISBN 13: 9780099277347

Publisher: Vintage, 1998

Synopsis

This volume brings together 54 stories written over four decades. The stories are full of what Bernard Malamud called "the human", both in the dignity with which his characters face life and in the artistry with which he tells their stories. Malamud has won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Review:

Due to his formidable skill as a novelist--and to the fact that one of his novels, The Natural, had the good or bad luck to be repackaged as a large-screen vehicle for Robert Redford--Bernard Malamud hasn't always been recognized as a short-story master of the first rank. As this collection demonstrates once and for all, he is. The anthology pieces, such as "The Magic Barrel", "The Silver Dish" or "Rembrandt's Hat" would be more than enough to place the author in the pantheon. But the 54 stories gathered here represent an astonishing abundance of narrative smarts and brilliant, Yiddish- accented prose. Malamud's heroes meet all manner of misfortune--there's something distinctly Job- like about even his most contented characters (a typical one has "a sort of indigenous sadness [that] hung on or around him")--yet the author suffuses their woes with gentle comedy. And while Jews occupy centre stage in almost every tale, they are universal rather than parochial figures: as the beleaguered tailor in "Angel Levine" triumphantly informs his wife, "Believe me, there are Jews everywhere."

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One of the best american short-story writers of this century. -Jay Cantor, the "New York Times"
Glittering gems that dazzle with a different splor with each turn in the light, these stories ask timeless questions even as they enchant. -Dan Cryer, "Newsday"

One of the best american short-story writers of this century. "Jay Cantor, the New York Times"

Glittering gems that dazzle with a different splor with each turn in the light, these stories ask timeless questions even as they enchant. -Dan Cryer, "Newsday" "Dan Cryer, Newsday""

"One of the best american short-story writers of this century." --Jay Cantor, the New York Times

"Glittering gems that dazzle with a different splor with each turn in the light, these stories ask timeless questions even as they enchant. -Dan Cryer, Newsday" --Dan Cryer, Newsday

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0099277344
• ISBN 13: 9780099277347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640