Dubin's Lives (FSG Classics) - Softcover

Malamud, Professor Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374528829 ISBN 13: 9780374528829

Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, 2003

Synopsis

With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon

Dubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's "best novel since The Assistant. Possibly, it is the best he has written of all."

Its protagonist is one of Malamud's finest characters; prize-winning biographer William Dubin, who learns from lives, or thinks he does: those he writes, those he shares, the life he lives. Now in his later middle age, he seeks his own secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the obsession of love--love for a woman half is age, who has sought an understanding of her life through his books. Dubin's Lives is a rich, subtle book, as well as a moving tale of love and marriage.

About this title

Review:

"Bernard Malamud has one of the greatest of a novelist's gifts. One believes everything he says...Dubin's Lives is another of his unaffected successes" (Financial Times)

"Masterly and hypnotic...I can't recall a more tender portrait of a marriage, or a more beautifully incisive, exact and well-judged chronicle of the longings - not just, but chiefly, erotic - that can owrry away at such a bond" (Observer)

"A rich book, generous in what it offers, a work that significantly extends the range of one of America's finest writers" (New York Times Book Review)

Book Description:

The story of a crisis and a love affair, from the great American 20th century novelist

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0374528829
• ISBN 13: 9780374528829
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362