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Bernard Malamud

Born

in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

April 28, 1914

Died

March 18, 1986

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Anton Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne ...more

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Bernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 44,700 ratings · 3,389 reviews · 109 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 10,580 ratings — published 1966 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Rosen (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 10,076 ratings — published 1957 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Natural by Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.63 avg rating — 10,825 ratings — published 1952 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud, Jhumpa Lahiri (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 2,460 ratings — published 1950 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tenants by Bernard Malamud, Aleksandar Hemon (Introduction) 3.63 avg rating — 968 ratings — published 1971 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud, Robert Giroux (Editor, Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 819 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New Life by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction) 3.72 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 1961 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Grace by Bernard Malamud, Dara Horn (Introduction) 3.62 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 1982 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (Introduction) 3.72 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 1977 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Idiots First 3.82 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 1963 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Bernard Malamud (?)

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
― Bernard Malamud

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“Where to look if you've lost your mind?”
― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

tags: crazy, insanity, mind, sanity

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“We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Natural

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January 2016 New School Group Read

1937, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, 366 pages

23 votes, 15.6%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 445 pages

21 votes, 14.3%

1915, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, 201 pages

15 votes, 10.2%

1920, This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 288 pages

12 votes, 8.2%

1953, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, 181 pages

12 votes, 8.2%

1954, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 182 pages

12 votes, 8.2%

1985, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, 400 pages

11 votes, 7.5%

1999, Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, 617 pages

8 votes, 5.4%

1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 304 pages

7 votes, 4.8%

1939, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 264 pages

7 votes, 4.8%

1998, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, 546 pages

7 votes, 4.8%

1984, The Bone People by Keri Hulme, 450 pages

5 votes, 3.4%

1956, The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque, 448 pages

3 votes, 2.0%

1926, The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, 218 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1957, The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, 246 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

147 total votes

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