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Bernard Malamud

Born

in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

April 26, 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 American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known 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 (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 43,881 ratings · 3,388 reviews · 130 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 11,365 ratings — published 1966 — 181 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) 3.62 avg rating — 11,675 ratings — published 1952 — 134 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 — 10,687 ratings — published 1957 — 134 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 3.94 avg rating — 2,644 ratings — published 1950 — 109 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) 3.60 avg rating — 1,094 ratings — published 1971 — 56 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 — 841 ratings — published 1997 — 21 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 — 670 ratings — published 1961 — 2 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) 3.61 avg rating — 512 ratings — published 1982 — 41 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 3.74 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 1977 — 61 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 3.81 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1963 — 59 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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What book recommended by King would you like to read in October.

Sole Survivor Dean Koontz

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The Poet by Michael Connelly

18 votes, 13.6%

A Head Full of Ghosts Paul Tremblay

16 votes, 12.1%

The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón

10 votes, 7.6%

The Shining Girls Lauren Beukes

10 votes, 7.6%

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy

10 votes, 7.6%

Summer of Night Dan Simmons

10 votes, 7.6%

You Caroline Kepnes

9 votes, 6.8%

Coldheart Canyon Clive Barker

7 votes, 5.3%

Some Kind of Fairy Tale Graham Joyce

6 votes, 4.5%

Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer

4 votes, 3.0%

The Land of Laughs Jonathan Carroll

4 votes, 3.0%

Consumed David Cronenberg

3 votes, 2.3%

Doing Harm Kelly Parsons

1 vote, 0.8%

The Natural Bernard Malamud

0 votes, 0.0%

132 total votes

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