A New Life (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Malamud, Bernard

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9780140186819: A New Life (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)

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ISBN 10: 0140186816 ISBN 13: 9780140186819

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

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Sy Levin is his own worst enemy. Former drunkard and newly appointed instructor at Cascadia College, his attempts to make something of his future out of the ruins of his past are continually frustrated by those miniature disasters which impede every man's grand design.

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"An Overlooked Masterpiece ... It May Still Be Undervalued As Malamud's Funniest And Most Embracing Novel."

"Malamud has written a moving, funny, satiric third novel ... rich in ideas, paradox and the variety of human nature... Levin is one of the most appealingly, sadly, funnily human people in recent fiction and "A New Life" is a wonderful book."--"Kirkus Reviews "(Starred Review) "The special qualities of Bernard Malamud's fiction which set it apart as serious art ... are its evocation of genuine pity for the calamities which overtake men, its scrupulous and deft playing of an ironic attitude against this pity, and its insistently moral structuring of event."--"The New York Times"

Malamud has written a moving, funny, satiric third novel ... rich in ideas, paradox and the variety of human nature... Levin is one of the most appealingly, sadly, funnily human people in recent fiction and "A New Life" is a wonderful book. "Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"

The special qualities of Bernard Malamud's fiction which set it apart as serious art ... are its evocation of genuine pity for the calamities which overtake men, its scrupulous and deft playing of an ironic attitude against this pity, and its insistently moral structuring of event. "The New York Times""

"Malamud has written a moving, funny, satiric third novel ... rich in ideas, paradox and the variety of human nature... Levin is one of the most appealingly, sadly, funnily human people in recent fiction and A New Life is a wonderful book." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

"The special qualities of Bernard Malamud's fiction which set it apart as serious art ... are its evocation of genuine pity for the calamities which overtake men, its scrupulous and deft playing of an ironic attitude against this pity, and its insistently moral structuring of event." --The New York Times

About the Author:

Bernard Malamud (1914 - 1986) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Fixer and the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel, a collection of stories. Born in Brooklyn, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont.

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