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God’s Grace By Bernard Malamud

Farrar, 223 pp., $13.50 I think many of us always suspected that Bernard Malamud had a lot to give as a writer. Remember reading The Magic Barrel or The Natural and marveling at the intricate reactions that Malamud’s deceptively simple prose generated? Remember privately having intimations of Malamud’s greatness, even though, in public, you discussed Bellow’s sharper intellect, Singer’s more touching humanity? Remember the disappointment that followed when, in several later works (especially Dubin’s Lives), Malamud seemed to have lost his magic, his sense of humor? With the publication of God’s Grace, the dry spell has ended. Malamud can restake his claim to deserved fame.

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God’s Grace By Bernard Malamud

Farrar, 223 pp., $13.50 I think many of us always suspected that Bernard Malamud had a lot to give as a writer. Remember reading The Magic Barrel or The Natural and marveling at the intricate reactions that Malamud’s deceptively simple prose generated? Remember privately having intimations of Malamud’s greatness, even though, in public, you discussed Bellow’s sharper intellect, Singer’s more touching humanity? Remember the disappointment that followed when, in several later works (especially Dubin’s Lives), Malamud seemed to have lost his magic, his sense of humor? With the publication of God’s Grace, the dry spell has ended. Malamud can restake his claim to deserved fame.