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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10: 0374528829
ISBN-13: 9780374528829
Buy.com Sku: 33805172
Publish Date: 9/1/2003
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(in Inches) 8H x 5.5L x 1.25T
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362
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They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow. Greenfeld wandered on various roads. In winter, bundled up against the weather, Dubin, a five-foot-eleven grizzled man with thin legs, walked on ice and snow, holding a peeled birch limb. Greenfeld remembered him tramping along exhaling white breaths. Sometimes when one was going longitude and the other latitude they waved to each other across windswept snowy fields. He recalled Dubin's half-hidden face on freezing days when it was too cold to talk. Or they joked in passing. (from the first line)
| With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon "Dubin''s Lives" (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in "The New York Times" as Malamud''s "best novel since "The Assistant." Possibly, it is the best he has written of all." Its protagonist is one of Malamud''s finest characters; prize-winning biographer William Dubin, who learns from lives, or thinks he does: those he writes, those he shares, the life he lives. Now in his later middle age, he seeks his own secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the obsession of love--love for a woman half is age, who has sought an understanding of her life through his books. "Dubin''s Lives" is a rich, subtle book, as well as a moving tale of love and marriage. |
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With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon Dubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's "best novel since The Assistant. Possibly, it is the best he has written of all." Its protagonist is one of Malamud's finest characters; prize-winning biographer William Dubin, who learns from lives, or thinks he does: those he writes, those he shares, the life he lives. Now in his later middle age, he seeks his own secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the obsession of love--love for a woman half is age, who has sought an understanding of her life through his books. Dubin's Lives is a rich, subtle book, as well as a moving tale of love and marriage. |
Annotation:
Malamud's novel is a penetrating study of a celebrated middle-aged biographer who, in the process of writing the lives of others, has lost track of the reality of his own.
Malamud's novel is a penetrating study of a celebrated middle-aged biographer who, in the process of writing the lives of others, has lost track of the reality of his own.
Author Bio
Bernard Malamud
Malamud was the elder of two sons of Russian immigrants, proprietors of a grocery store in Brooklyn. His mother died when he was 15, his father remarried, and their family life disintegrated. He attended New York City schools, with a B.A. from City College in 1936. After graduation, Malamud worked briefly for the census bureau before he earned an M.A. in English literature at Columbia, with a thesis on the poetry of Thomas Hardy. Shortly thereafter, he began publishing short stories and teaching in various colleges, finally settling at Bennington in 1960, where he taught for the rest of his life. He was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, as well as countless other honors. Malamud died at his desk, working on his last novel, "The People".
Nation
"Where this novel succeeds and is, in my estimation, the richest of all Malamud's novels lies in Malamud's command of the idiom of domestic warfare, the day-to-day details of a marriage in decline. Here as nowhere else Malamud pursues his favorite myth of moral exigency without resort to folklore or to the easy affirmations of packaged morality and the equally easy negotiations of psychic disarray. Malamud has been more considerate of his turmoil this time around, and produced a novel whose cries of conscience, erotic remissions and ultimate vote for sanity are worked out with patience and therefore credibility." - Mark Schechner 03/17/1979
"Where this novel succeeds and is, in my estimation, the richest of all Malamud's novels lies in Malamud's command of the idiom of domestic warfare, the day-to-day details of a marriage in decline. Here as nowhere else Malamud pursues his favorite myth of moral exigency without resort to folklore or to the easy affirmations of packaged morality and the equally easy negotiations of psychic disarray. Malamud has been more considerate of his turmoil this time around, and produced a novel whose cries of conscience, erotic remissions and ultimate vote for sanity are worked out with patience and therefore credibility." - Mark Schechner 03/17/1979
