Idiots First Author:Bernard malamud This collection contains a number of Malamud's most wonderful stories. The title story 'Idiot's First' is the tale of a dying father's efforts to get train - fare to California for his severely retarded - son. This is a story of that poor Yiddish speaking Jewish world which Malamud was a master in relating stories of. Yet another story from thi... more »s world is probably the most well- known of this collection, 'The Jewbird'. This story of the talking bird who comes to live with the poor Jewish family and suffers in the end from Anti-Semitism has with it Malamud's characteristic irony and awareness of human suffering. In another of the key stories of the work a German refugee who is trying to make a new life in America comes to a tragic ending when he learns that the German wife he left behind has rather than abandon him in spirit been converted to Judaism and for this been murdered by the Nazis.« less
ISBN-13: 9780671788100 ISBN-10: 0671788108 Publication Date: 12/1/1974 Pages:191 Edition:Pocket Book ed Rating: