The Fixer by Bernard Malamud [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1967 • Dell

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1967] DELL

1st Dell mass market paperback printing.

Vintage paperback in very good reading condition.

Tanning to cover wraps and a corner crease.  Read-creasing to spine.

Reads clean with some inevitable tanning to pages.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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.