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The Fixer
Contributor(s): Malamud, Bernard (Author), Foer, Jonathan Safran (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0374529388     ISBN-13: 9780374529383
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2004
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Annotation: A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
"The Fixer" (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.
Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Jewish
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2003116991
Lexile Measure: 960
Series: FSG Classics
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.54" W x 8.26" (0.69 lbs) 335 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 10836
Reading Level: 7.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 17.0
 
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The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.

Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.

Contributor Bio(s): Foer, Jonathan Safran: - Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Here I Am, and the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.Malamud, Bernard: - Bernard Malamud (1914-86) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for The Fixer, and the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel. Born in Brooklyn, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont.