Bernard Malamud
A Writer's Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 September 2007
- ISBN 9780199270095
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages422 pages
- Size 240x170x40 mm
- Weight 840 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece in colour, 32 pages of black-and-white plates 0
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Short description:
Philip Davis presents the first full-scale biography of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period. The time is ripe for a revival of interest in a man who at the peak of his success stood alongside Saul Bellow and Philip Roth in the ranks of Jewish American writers.
MoreLong description:
Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period. The time is ripe for a revival of interest in a man who at the peak of his success stood alongside Saul Bellow and Philip Roth in the ranks of Jewish American writers.
Nothing came easily to Malamud: his family was poor, his mother probably committed suicide when Malamud was 14, and his younger brother inherited her schizophrenia. Malamud did everything the second time round - re-using his life in his writing, even as he revised draft after draft. Davis's meticulous biography shows all that it meant for this man to be a writer in terms of both the uses of and the costs to his own life. It also restores Bernard Malamud's literary reputation as one of the great original voices of his generation, a writer of superb subtlety and clarity.
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life benefits from Philip Davis's exclusive interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, unfettered access to private journals and letters, and detailed analysis of Malamud's working methods through the examination of hitherto unresearched manuscripts. It is very much a writer's life. It is also the story of a struggling emotional man, using an extraordinary but long-worked-for gift, in order to give meaning to ordinary human life.
In all, this is a highly readable, informative, and enjoyable volume on an important literary figure.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
THE FIRST LIFE
The Inheritance
The Long Adolescence
THE SECOND LIFE
Oregon
The Assistant
'Because I Can'
THE THIRD LIFE
The Beginning of the Middle Years
'We need some sort of poverty in our lives'
From The Fixer towards Dubin
Dubin's Lives
IN HIS LAST LIFE
'As you are grooved so you are graved'
