A lost bar-mitzvah. Dubin's lives -- God's grace -- Other writings. God's wrath ; Talking horse ; The letter ; The silver crown ; Notes from a lady at a dinner party ; In retirement ; Rembrandt's hat ; A wig ; The model ; A lost grave ; Zora's noise ; In Kew Gardens ; Alma redeemed -- Other writings. Introduction to The stories of Bernard Malamud ; Long work, short life ; A lost bar-mitzvah.
Summary:
This capstone novel in Library of America's Bernard Malamud edition brings together his three final novels: The Tenants, about the growing tension between two male writers -- one Jewish, the other Black -- who are the only inhabitants of a crumbling Manhattan tenement house; Dubin's Lives, a revealing study in the perils and and promise of love in middle age; and God's Grace, a postapocalyptic tale of upended evolution in which redemption depends on the lone human survivor's ability to find common ground with a talking chimp. Edited by Malamud's definitive biographer, the volume is rounded out with thirteen masterful short stories and the memoir "Long Work, Short Life" as well as a fascinating autobiographic sketch, " A Lost Bar-Mitzvah," published here for the first time.
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