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Book SynopsisBernard Malamud (1914-1986) was an American author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American-Jewish authors of the twentieth century. His baseball novel,
The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel
The Fixer, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Trade ReviewHis masterpiece * Philip Roth *
The Fixer deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth * Independent *
A novel of great power, even grandeur
* Life *
What makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity
* Jonathan Safran Foer *
He writes with wisdom, compassion and humour... in the best tradition of Chekhov, Joyce and Hemingway * New York Times *
An absorbing, compelling and deeply human tale of freedom, hate and morality, its deceptively simple style and beautifully wrought sentences hold you captive from its opening... If the term wasn't cheapened by constant use, I'd call it a masterpiece... A novel that could change your life * Guardian *
