The Fixer, The Natural, The Assistant

by Bernard Malamud

First Edition, 1992, first printing, a like-new, unread, unworn, unopened, unmarked hardcover, with an equally fine unclipped dust jacket, from MJF Books. By Bernard Malamud. This is an omnibus collection of three complete, unabridged The Fixer, The Natural, and The Assistant. ISBN 1-56731-001-x.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Russia

690 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Reviews

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women, my favorite book of 2009, I talked of nothing else in 2005 when I read The Fixer. Malamud's classic about a Jewish man falsely accused of bleeding a Christian child is about the best meditation on suffering that I have ever read.

[Maria Shaul · Rating 4 out of 5]

I only read "The assistant" as a separate book.
I can just say that I met a good book and discovered a good writer