![]() ![]() ![]() I am not sure if this concept was very common in the 1950’s. In the end, the hero will be cast off when they find out his skeleton in the closet. He may have hit upon the common concept in TV dramas and movies of a boy or man adopted by a good family, then they (family) will be attached to him because he makes a difference in their life, and all the lovey-dovey rage is that there is a daughter will fall for him. Since Bernard Malamud was a Jewish-American writer, he may have thought about what best literary devices or styles he would illustrate in a novel the life of Jew refugees in New York City after the WWII. I wish it were, along with his Pulitzer Prize Winner, The Fixer, because this book is so compelling. ![]() TIME magazine considered this as one of the all-time best novels since 1923, but I wonder why it is not included in the 1001 Best Novels of All Time You must Read Before You Die. ![]()
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