The Fixer (First Edition, First Printing, 1966)
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Coffee Cat Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.Coffee Cat Books
AbeBooks seller since September 15, 2021
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 197.67
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Near Fine / Near Fine. Unmarked. Lovely copy. First Edition, First Printing. 1966. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; NY. Hardcover. NF dust jacket, unclipped, light tanning edges, small nicks & light wear. Protected in mylar cover. Light age speckling to the outer text block, interior pages clean. 335 pp. 6x8.5" (Octavo). Malamud's novel of the 1911 Beilis blood libel case in Kiev, winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Set in Tsarist Russia in 1911, The Fixer chronicles the ordeal of Yakov Bok, an impoverished Jewish handyman who leaves his rural shtetl for Kiev in search of work. After taking a job under an assumed identity at a brickyard in a district forbidden to Jews, Bok is falsely accused of the ritual murder of a young Russian boy. Imprisoned without formal trial, subjected to relentless psychological pressure and pushed to confess in order to justify state-sponsored pogroms, Bok mounts an unrelenting resistance against institutional oppression. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the novel in New York in 1966, w/ jacket design by Janet Halverson and book design by Marshall Lee. The narrative draws directly on the historical 1911-1913 trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis in Kiev, which Bernard Malamud structures into a philosophical exploration of freedom, state corruption and individual conscience. The novel won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction. Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) was a central figure in post-war American literature, known for novels and short story collections exploring moral accountability, immigrant identity and the Jewish-American experience. Across his career Malamud received two National Book Awards, the Pulitzer Prize and the O. Henry Award. His work is read alongside that of his contemporaries Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, and The Fixer is studied today across Jewish-American literary history and mid-century American fiction. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Fixer (First Edition, First Printing, 1966)
- Author
- Bernard Malamud
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication year
- 1966
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 49 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x8.5" (Octavo)
- Seller catalogs
- Literature
Coffee Cat Books
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