The Fixer

Name: The Fixer
Author: Bernard Malamud

by Bernard Malamud

Novel following a Jewish handyman falsely imprisoned in Tsarist Russia for a murder

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Bernard Malamud

American novelist and short-story writer whose The Natural and The Fixer are among the great American novels. His work explores Jewish-American experience with moral seriousness and mythic resonance. He was a central figure of postwar American literature.

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