A Malamud Reader

This volume presents between the covers of a single book the range and scope of one of the most distinguished writers in America, Bernard Malamud. A Malamud Reader contains the complete text of The Assistant , his novel of love and redemption in Brooklyn; ten stories from The Magic Barrel and Idiots First ; three journeys--to Chicago, from The Natural ; to the coast, from A New Life ; and to Kiev, from The Fixer --and two long selections, "S. Levin in Love" and "Yakov Bok in Prison."