Bernard Malamud
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the book as they might a displaced person in one of Malamud's stories, now returned to us, complete and fulfilled and recognized at last. The volume gathers together fifty-five...
2) The fixer
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1966.
Language
English
Description
The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novelone 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...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In post-WWII Brooklyn, Frank Alpine, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italian American drifter fleeing from his past works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood where he develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.
4) The natural
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1952.
Language
English
Description
The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the firstand some would say still the bestnovel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different materialthe story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball eraand invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand...
5) The natural
Publisher
Columbia Tri-Star Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball stardom. As a 14-year old he fashions a baseball bat from an oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability. His talent also catches the eye of a sportswriter who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobbs' career. The appearance of a mysterious woman, however, shatters his dream. Years later Hobbs reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights and has...
6) The natural
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Roy Hobbs' boyhood dream of being a baseball superstar is shattered when he meets a mysterious woman, but years later, overcoming physical pain, he has a chance to lead his team to the pennant.