Library of America, Date: 2014. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2014. Library of America ISBN 1598532928 9781598532920 [US]

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ISBN10: 1598532928, ISBN13: 9781598532920, [publisher: Library of America, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Eulogizing him in 1986, Saul Bellow pronounced that Bernard Malamud 'in his novels and stories discovered a sort of communicative genius in the impoverished, harsh jargon of immigrant New York. He was a myth maker a fabulist, a writer of exquisite parables.' With this volume and its companion, Novels and Stories of the 1960s. The Library of America initiates a three-volume edition celebrating, in Bellow's words, 'a rich original of the first rank.' At age thirty-eight, after a long apprenticeship writing stories, Bernard malamud published his first book, The Natural (1952), and instantly redefined the possibilities of sports fiction. Reimagining the colorful characters and storied episodes of baseball lore, Malamud imbued the tale of Roy Hobbs - a once-promising prospect whose first chance at a big-league career had been sabotaged by a deranged female fan - with the grandeur of myth. Armed with Wonderboy, his beloved bat, Roy leads his New York Knights in an unlikely run at the league pennant. The quest leads him ever deeper into a thicket of intrigue involving the team's venal owner, the manager's irresistible niece, and Roy's own insatiable appetites. The son of a cash-strapped Brooklyn grocer, Malamud transformed the bleak world of his youth into fiction in his next novel, The Assistant (1957). Aging shopkeeper Morris ...

ISBN10: 1598532928, ISBN13: 9781598532920, [publisher: Library of America, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Eulogizing him in 1986, Saul Bellow pronounced that Bernard Malamud 'in his novels and stories discovered a sort of communicative genius in the impoverished, harsh jargon of immigrant New York. He was a myth maker a fabulist, a writer of exquisite parables.' With this volume and its companion, Novels and Stories of the 1960s. The Library of America initiates a three-volume edition celebrating, in Bellow's words, 'a rich original of the first rank.' At age thirty-eight, after a long apprenticeship writing stories, Bernard malamud published his first book, The Natural (1952), and instantly redefined the possibilities of sports fiction. Reimagining the colorful characters and storied episodes of baseball lore, Malamud imbued the tale of Roy Hobbs - a once-promising prospect whose first chance at a big-league career had been sabotaged by a deranged female fan - with the grandeur of myth. Armed with Wonderboy, his beloved bat, Roy leads his New York Knights in an unlikely run at the league pennant. The quest leads him ever deeper into a thicket of intrigue involving the team's venal owner, the manager's irresistible niece, and Roy's own insatiable appetites. The son of a cash-strapped Brooklyn grocer, Malamud transformed the bleak world of his youth into fiction in his next novel, The Assistant (1957). Aging shopkeeper Morris ...