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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherWashington Square Press
ISBN-100671460757
ISBN-139780671460754
eBay Product ID (ePID)166509573
Product Key Features
TopicGeneral, Literary
Book TitleFixer
Publication Year1982
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorBernard Malamud
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisThe Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Fixer (1966) 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.