SOURCE: Quart, Barbara Koenig. “Women in Bernard Malamud's Fiction.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 3 (1983): 138-50.
In the following essay, Quart discusses Malamud's technique of keeping his female characters at a distance—both physically and emotionally—from his male characters.
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