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...STORIES OF BERNARD MALAMUD...
...Bernard Malamud; Farrar Straus Giroux; 350 pages...
Under such difficult conditions, Author Bernard Malamud, 69, has been racing himself for a long time. In 31 years he has published seven novels, including The Natural (1952) and The Fixer (1966), interspersed with four volumes of short fiction. The Stories of Bernard Malamud includes 23 pieces selected by the author from these past assemblages, plus two previously uncollected stories. The book not only offers substantial evidence that Malamud's stories are better than his novels; it makes the distinction seem irrelevant. In sufficient concentration, small objects achieve critical mass, enough fast victories add up to a triumphant long...
...Malamud's world reveals itself bit by bit: a place of stony certainties and infrangible laws, brightened occasionally by enclaves of unexpected magic. Those who live here are predominantly poor, oppressed by hard work. Most are men without women. More than half the heroes in these stories are bachelors or widowers. There are also a few male characters for whom marital status hardly matters: a talking horse named Abramowitz, a bedraggled black bird who claims he is Jewish and calls himself Schwartz. The main character in a story called The Model speaks for most of Malamud...
...dreaming of ways to get out of New Jersey." Redford, meanwhile, was returning to the screen for the first time since 1980, when he appeared in Brubaker and directed Ordinary People. This month he is on location at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo filming The Natural, based on Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel about a 34-year-old baseball player who finally makes it to the big leagues during the 1930s. Like Scheider, maybe like every American male, Redford is glad to have a chance to explore an unlived fantasy. He had planned to be a ballplayer...