Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud

Dubin's Lives
by Bernard Malamud

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux
Stated first printing, 1979

SIGNED and inscribed by Malamud on the ffep: "To Suzanne Shepherd / Every good wish from a writer partial to librarians -- Bernard Malamud / Bennington, Vermont, 1981"

Condition: Hardcover; dust jacket has a few chips, edge wear and general scuffing, and remains unclipped--see photos. Book itself is in very good condition with minimal to very minor apparent wear. Interior is clean and neat, binding is firm.

wiki: "Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Dubin's Lives is the seventh published novel by the American writer Bernard Malamud. The title character is a biographer working on a life of D. H. Lawrence. It first appeared in hardcover from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1979."