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"This volume brings together fifty-four stories written over four decades - from "Armistice," which Malamud wrote on the job at the U.S. Census Department in 1940, to "Alma Redeemed," written in 19...
"This volume brings together fifty-four stories written over four decades - from "Armistice," which Malamud wrote on the job at the U.S. Census Department in 1940, to "Alma Redeemed," written in 1984, by which time Malamud was a distinguished man of letters with an array of honors, the admiration of his peers, and the acclaim of readers." "In his early stories (beginning with his first collection, The Magic Barrel, published in 1959), Malamud refashioned the American short story in the Yiddish-inflected idiom of his boyhood. The Magic Barrel and its successor, Idiots First (1963), included stories about the unforgettable Fidelman, a "self-confessed failure as a painter" whose misadventures in Rome and elsewhere eventually were gathered in Pictures of Fidelman (1969). The stories in Rembrandt's Hat (1973) as well as the late stories "Alma Redeemed" (about Alma Mahler) and "In Kew Gardens" (about Virginia Woolf) explore the tense negotiation between life and art, a theme of Malamud's later novels." "In all his work, Malamud was concerned to identify and dramatize a quality he spoke of as "the human." This quality is found in the way his characters cling to hope against all reason, in their capacity for sudden deep feeling and their awareness of the world's comic indifference to their aspirations."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Bernard Malamud ; edited and introduced by Robert Giroux
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997
- Physical Details
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- xv, 634 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780374126391, 0374126399
- OCLC
- ocm36647910
- Armistice -- Spring Rain -- The Grocery Store -- 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 -- The Loan -- A Confession of Murder -- Riding Pants -- The Girl of My Dreams -- The Magic Barrel -- The Mourners -- Angel Levine -- A Summer's Reading -- Take Pity -- The Elevator -- An Apology -- The Last Mohican -- The Lady of the Lake -- Behold the Key -- The Maid's Shoes -- Idiots First -- Still Life -- Suppose a Wedding -- Life Is Better Than Death -- The Jewbird -- Black Is My Favorite Color -- Naked Nude -- The German Refugee -- A Choice of Profession -- A Pimp's Revenge -- Man in the Drawer -- My Son the Murderer -- Pictures of the Artist -- An Exorcism -- Glass Blower of Venice -- God's Wrath -- Talking Horse -- The Letter -- The Silver Crown -- Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party -- In Retirement -- Rembrandt's Hat -- A Wig -- The Model -- A Lost Grave -- Zora's Noise -- In Kew Gardens -- Alma Redeemed