Bernard Malamud
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, about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Books by Bernard Malamud
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The Magic Barrel
by Bernard Malamud
4.0(2,236)
In post-war Jewish New York, Bernard Malamud turns the daily struggles of lonely matchmakers, desperate shopkeepers, and grieving tailors into a strange, beautiful story of human endurance and the search for grace.
The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
3.6(10,071)
Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy with a mysterious past and a bat named 'Wonderboy,' navigates ambition, corruption, and mythic destiny on the diamond.