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Bernard malamud s, pulitzer prize winning novel, the fixer is a powerful, harrowing book and like any great piece of literature, it extends beyond its characters and setting and into the future and back into the past and forever remains relevant. The fixer 1966 is bernard malamuds bestknown and most acclaimed novel one that makes manifest his roots in russian fiction, especially that of isaac babel. Malamuds second novel, the assistant 1957, set in new york and drawing on malamuds own childhood, is an account of the life of morris bober, a jewish immigrant who owns a grocery store in brooklyn. The natural, bernard malamuds first novel, published in 1952, is also the first and some would say still the best novel ever written about baseball.
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