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Faced with this book, some readers might be dismayed by the thought of yet another Jewish novel. What with The Fixer by Malamud, The Chosen by Potok, and Fathers by Herbert Gold, not to mention a score of nonfiction books on Jewish themes recently, the public may well suspect a conspiracy to corner the literary market. But Singer is different and special. A deceptively frail, birdlike presence, he inhabits with iron realism a no man's land somewhere in the middle of a life of contradictions divided between 31 years spent in his native Poland and 32 years...
Manuela was more than a colonel in the army of Simón Bolívar, who liberated the west coast of South America from the Spaniards early in the last century. She was also 'Bolívar's political fixer and counselor and, for eight years, his mistress (her husband finally divorced her). As this book makes clear, "La Sáenz," the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish nobleman and an Ecuadorian peasant girl, was a remarkable young woman. She raised money and equipment when the Liberator's armies were flagging, took over affairs of state...
Bernard Malamud, visiting lecturer in the freshman seminar program, has won the 1967 National Book Award for fiction for his novel, The Fixer...
...Fixer is a semi-historical account of the life of a Jewish handyman in Russia who was falsely accused of ritual murder...
...Fixer, Malamud...