Description
With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon
Dubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's best novel since The Assistant. Possibly, it is the best he has written of all. Its protagonist is one of Malamud's finest characters; prize-winning biographer William Dubin, who learns from lives, or thinks he does: those he writes, those he shares, the life he lives. Now in his later middle age, he seeks his own secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the obsession of love--love for a woman half is age, who has sought an understanding of her life through his books. Dubin's Lives is a rich, subtle book, as well as a moving tale of love and marriage.Author: Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/18/2003
Pages: 362
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.46w x 0.97d
ISBN13: 9780374528829
ISBN10: 0374528829
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Jewish
- Fiction | World Literature | American | 20th Century
About the Author
Bernard Malamud (1914-86) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for The Fixer, and the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel, a collection of stories. Born in Brooklyn, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont.
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