false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161975625m/3069.jpg 3069 11 <div><b>"Is he an American Master? Of course. He not only wrote in the American language, he augmented it with fresh plasticity, he shaped our English into startling new configurations." --Cynthia Ozick</b><br><br><br><b> </b><i>God's Grace </i>(1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood-a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. <br> The novel's protagonist is paleolosist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending to his work at the bottom of the ocean when the Devastation struck, and who alone survived. This rabbi's son?a "marginal error"?finds himself shipwrecked with an experimental chimpanzee capable of speech, to whom he gives the name Buz. Soon other creatures appear on their island-baboons, chimps, five apes, and a lone gorilla. Cohn works hard to make it possible for God to love His creation again, and his hopes increase as he encounters the unknown and the unforeseen in this strange new world. <br> With <i>God's Grace</i>, Malamud took a great risk, and it paid off. The novel's fresh and pervasive humor, narrative ingenuity, and tragic sense of the human condition make it one of Malamud's most extraordinary books. <br></div> 1373443 1982 God's Grace total:74|5:0|4:1|3:3|2:0|1:0| 74 253 116 5 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 11:53:13 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 12:03:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false true Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Thu Aug 13 11:31:04 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 15:47:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 08:44:22 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 01:08:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 17:24:13 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 17:25:40 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Oct 23 14:55:24 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 14:56:04 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 27 19:16:47 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 19:16:47 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 26 08:20:11 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 08:20:11 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 04:52:31 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 04:52:31 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 23 16:31:36 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 16:31:36 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 01:43:02 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 01:43:02 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:07:52 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 00:07:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 16 17:29:38 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 17:29:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 12 02:06:48 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 02:07:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 16 14:05:30 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 14:05:30 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Sep 13 15:55:27 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 15:55:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 29 11:21:46 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 11:21:46 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Mon Aug 17 04:20:41 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 04:20:41 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Aug 03 11:57:55 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:57:55 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 09:28:41 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 09:56:51 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 23:40:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 23:40:59 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3069