The complete stories /

Malamud, Bernard.

The complete stories / Bernard Malamud ; edited and introduced by Robert Giroux. - New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997. - xv, 634 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-634).

Armistice -- Spring rain -- The grocery store -- Benefit performance -- The place is different now -- Steady customer -- The literary life of Laban Goldman -- The cost of living -- The prison -- The first seven years -- The death of me -- The bill -- The loan -- A confession of murder -- Riding pants -- The girl of my dreams -- The magic barrel -- The mourners -- Angel Levine -- A summer's reading -- Take pity -- The elevator -- An apology -- The last Mohican -- The lady of the lake -- Behold the key -- The maid's shoes -- Idiots first -- Still life -- Suppose a wedding -- Life is better than death -- The jewbird -- Black is my favorite color -- Naked nude -- The German refugee -- A choice of profession -- A pimp's revenge -- Man in the drawer -- My son the murderer -- Pictures of the artist -- An exorcism -- Glass blower of Venice -- 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 -- Alms redeemed.

More than 50 stories on the Jewish experience this century. They chronicle the lives of Old Country ancestors, refugees, immigrants or just simple wanderers like the anti- hero Fidelman. The settings are on both sides of the Atlantic.

0374126399 (alk. paper) 9780374126391 (alk. paper)

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Jews--Fiction.


Short stories.

PS 3563 / M236c 1997

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