Bernard Malamud

In this overview of Malamud's short stories, Solotaroff discusses all of Malamud's stories, from his early efforts to the triumphs of later years, and places him in the larger traditions of modernism and the Jewish renaissance of the 1950s and '60s. Solotaroff also presents Malamud's own comments about his development as a writer to show the close link between his childhood and his recurrent thematic treatment of the immigrant experience in America. The volume also features comments by Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, and Charles May. ISBN 0-8057-8316-4: $20.95.