A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows the career of baseball player Roy Hobbs, a natural with a bat whose dreams of playing in the big leagues are deferred by a youthful indiscretion, but who finally becomes a hero. Reprint.

The Natural

Literature & Fiction

MALAMUD, BERNARD

Contemporary

Perennial

A struggling neighborhood Jewish grocer takes on a helper who falls in love with his daughter and steals from his store. Reprint.

The Assistant

The Complete Stories.

GIROUX, ROBERT (EDITOR AND INTRODUCTION)

Vintage Books, London

The Tenants (Vintage Classics)

Literary

Vintage Classics

Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store.Like Malamud's best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and great expectations. Malamud defined the immigrant experience in a way that has proven vital for several generations of writers.

Assistant, The

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

In A New Life, Bernard Malamud—generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer—took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.When Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves the city for the Pacific Northwest to start over, it's no surprise that he conjures a vision of the extraordinary new life awaiting him there: "He imagined the pioneers in covered wagons entering this valley for the first time. Although he had lived little in nature Levin had always loved it, and the sense of having done the right thing in leaving New York was renewed in him."Soon after his arrival at Cascadia College, however, Levin realizes he has been taken in by a mirage. The failures pile up anew, and Levin, fired from his post, finds himself back where he started and little the wiser for it.

A New Life

Penguin

The Fixer

A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award "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.

The fixer

Dell Publishing

A novel first published by Eyre Methuen and Penguin in 1972, and by Chatto & Windus in 1981, telling of how Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he started ten years earlier, and how he is influenced by a black soul writer. In the VINTAGE CLASSICS series.

The tenants

Loneliness, death, and dreams are the predominant themes in this collection of eight stories

Rembrandt's Hat

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The Natural

The Assistant

The Complete Stories.

The Tenants (Vintage Classics)

Assistant, The

A New Life

The fixer

The Natural

The tenants

Rembrandt's Hat