Fixer - Softcover

Bernard Malamud

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671689517 ISBN 13: 9780671689513

Publisher: Pocket, 1989

Synopsis

The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Fixer is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel―one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.

Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.

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About the Author:

Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Fixer, and the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel, a book of stories. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0671689517
• ISBN 13: 9780671689513
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback