Novels and stories of the 1970s and 80s : The teants ; Dubin's lives ; God's grace ; Stories & other writings
Call Number
- FICTION MALA (CEN)
Publication Information
[New York] : The Library of America, [2023]
Physical Description
899 pages ; 21 cm.
Uniform Title
Summary
This capstone novel in Library of America's Bernard Malamud edition brings together his three final novels: The Tenants, about the growing tension between two male writers -- one Jewish, the other Black -- who are the only inhabitants of a crumbling Manhattan tenement house; Dubin's Lives, a revealing study in the perils and and promise of love in middle age; and God's Grace, a postapocalyptic tale of upended evolution in which redemption depends on the lone human survivor's ability to find common ground with a talking chimp. Edited by Malamud's definitive biographer, the volume is rounded out with thirteen masterful short stories and the memoir "Long Work, Short Life" as well as a fascinating autobiographic sketch, " A Lost Bar-Mitzvah," published here for the first time.
Contents
- The tenants
- Dubin's lives
- God's grace
- Thirteen stories. 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
- Other writings. Introduction to The stories of Bernard Malamud ; Long work, short life ; A lost bar-mitzvah.