Studies in American Fiction, March 22nd, 1995
This book begins by drawing attention to Sidney Richman's caveat in the Preface to his Bernard Malamud (1966) "that no definitive statement could be made about Malamud's first work until his last had been done" (p. 7). With all of that work now completed, Abramson's study proposes "to evaluate Malamud's literary vision in relation to his work as a whole" and, moreover, "to take account of more recent scholarship" (p. ix). In short, the reader might well believe that he will discover in Abramson's treatment a timely reassessment of Malamud's work and reputation. Given Richman's still very ast...
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