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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374529388

ISBN-139780374529383

eBay Product ID (ePID)30208019

Product Key Features

Book TitleFixer : a Novel

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicLiterary, Jewish

GenreFiction

AuthorBernard Malamud

Book SeriesFsg Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight10.9 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-116991

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"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 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., "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 ofEverything 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, "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, Brilliant [and] harrowing . . . Historical reality combined with fictional skill and beauty of a high order make [it] a novel of startling importance., The Fixer deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.

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Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisThe 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3563.A4F5 2004