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Moreno, Mary
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Fiction
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2020
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Goldstar Publishing
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English
β 71 KB
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A New Life
β Scribed by Malamud, Bernard
- Book ID
- 107596869
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 240 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780374529499
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan Lethem
In A New Life , Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.
When Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves the city for the Pacific Northwest to start over, it's no surprise that he conjures a vision of the extraordinary new life awaiting him there: "He imagined the pioneers in covered wagons entering this valley for the first time. Although he had lived little in nature Levin had always loved it, and the sense of having done the right thing in leaving New York was renewed in him." Soon after his arrival at Cascadia College, however, Levin realizes he has been taken in by a mirage. The failures pile up anew, and Levin, fired from his post, finds himself back where he started and little the wiser for...
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\"An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud\'s funniest and most embracing novel.\" --Jonathan Lethem In A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention. When Sy Levin,