Bernard Malamud, renowned as a novelist, was also highly acclaimed as a writer of short stories. He himself wrote: 'Short stories, perhaps better than other forms of fiction, point up the haste and heaviness of the odds against us, and our million daily miraculous escapes from the worst of fates and the best of insights.' The magic in Malamud's stories is once again evident in Idiots First, both in the strange fantasy of a story like 'The Jewbird' or the title story 'Idiots First' and in the deeply moving realism of 'The ... Read More
Bernard Malamud, renowned as a novelist, was also highly acclaimed as a writer of short stories. He himself wrote: 'Short stories, perhaps better than other forms of fiction, point up the haste and heaviness of the odds against us, and our million daily miraculous escapes from the worst of fates and the best of insights.' The magic in Malamud's stories is once again evident in Idiots First, both in the strange fantasy of a story like 'The Jewbird' or the title story 'Idiots First' and in the deeply moving realism of 'The German Refugee'. It is in the wit and comic gusto of 'Still Life' and in the strangeness of 'Naked Nude'. Read Less
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Good. 1964. Hardcover. Clean copy in fine in dust wrapper. DW with tape to bottom corner. Light foxing to page edges. Remains a good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine in near fine white dj with black lettering. Previous owner's name on endpaper. Magazine article on author laid in. 212 pp. A book of 12 stories (he won national book award for previous set of stories). 4 stories set in Italy, 4 Jewish stories (comic and sad), 2 first-peson stories, and 2 early stories written in the fifties.
