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Item specifics

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Good: A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. ...
ISBN
9780374529499

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374529493
ISBN-13
9780374529499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30785078

Product Key Features

Book Title
New Life : a Novel
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Author
Bernard Malamud
Book Series
Fsg Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-108067
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"Malamud has written a moving, funny, satiric third novel ... rich in ideas, paradox and the variety of human nature... Levin is one of the most appealingly, sadly, funnily human people in recent fiction and A New Life is a wonderful book." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)   "The special qualities of Bernard Malamud's fiction which set it apart as serious art ... are its evocation of genuine pity for the calamities which overtake men, its scrupulous and deft playing of an ironic attitude against this pity, and its insistently moral structuring of event." -- The New York Times, The special qualities of Bernard Malamud's fiction which set it apart as serious art ... are its evocation of genuine pity for the calamities which overtake men, its scrupulous and deft playing of an ironic attitude against this pity, and its insistently moral structuring of event., "Malamud has written a moving, funny, satiric third novel ... rich in ideas, paradox and the variety of human nature... Levin is one of the most appealingly, sadly, funnily human people in recent fiction and A New Life is a wonderful book." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "The special qualities of Bernard Malamud's fiction which set it apart as serious art ... are its evocation of genuine pity for the calamities which overtake men, its scrupulous and deft playing of an ironic attitude against this pity, and its insistently moral structuring of event." -- The New York Times, Malamud has written a moving, funny, satiric third novel ... rich in ideas, paradox and the variety of human nature... Levin is one of the most appealingly, sadly, funnily human people in recent fiction and A New Life is a wonderful book.
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
"An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan Lethem In A New Life , Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention. When Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves the city for the Pacific Northwest to start over, it's no surprise that he conjures a vision of the extraordinary new life awaiting him there: "He imagined the pioneers in covered wagons entering this valley for the first time. Although he had lived little in nature Levin had always loved it, and the sense of having done the right thing in leaving New York was renewed in him." Soon after his arrival at Cascadia College, however, Levin realizes he has been taken in by a mirage. The failures pile up anew, and Levin, fired from his post, finds himself back where he started and little the wiser for it. A New Life --as Jonathan Lethem's introduction makes clear--is Malamud at his best: with his belief in luck and new beginnings Sy Levin embodies the thwarted yearning for transcendence that is at the heart of all Malamud's work.
LC Classification Number
PS3563.A4N4 2004

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