Dubin's Lives
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tear on spine. Page Condition: good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good.
William Dubin is a celebrated biographer who has spent his life chronicling the intimate truths of other men — but when a young, free-spirited woman named Fanny Bick enters his world, he is forced to confront the unlived chapters of his own. Set against the quiet landscapes of rural Vermont, Bernard Malamud's Dubin's Lives presents a searing meditation on middle age, desire, and the painful distance between the life one constructs and the life one yearns for. The novel unfolds with the slow, aching tension of a man caught between duty and passion, as Dubin's orderly existence begins to fracture under the weight of an obsession he cannot name or contain. Malamud writes with the moral seriousness and psychological precision that defined the best of mid-twentieth-century American fiction, weaving together themes of creativity, mortality, and self-deception into a narrative of extraordinary depth. His prose is spare yet luminous, carrying the quiet devastation of Chekhov alongside the ethical weight of the Jewish-American literary tradition he helped define. Dubin's Lives stands as one of Malamud's most ambitious and personal works — a novel that asks, with quiet urgency, whether it is ever too late to truly know oneself.
Author: Bernard Malamud
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Farrar Straus Giroux
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tear on spine. Page Condition: good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good.
William Dubin is a celebrated biographer who has spent his life chronicling the intimate truths of other men — but when a young, free-spirited woman named Fanny Bick enters his world, he is forced to confront the unlived chapters of his own. Set against the quiet landscapes of rural Vermont, Bernard Malamud's Dubin's Lives presents a searing meditation on middle age, desire, and the painful distance between the life one constructs and the life one yearns for. The novel unfolds with the slow, aching tension of a man caught between duty and passion, as Dubin's orderly existence begins to fracture under the weight of an obsession he cannot name or contain. Malamud writes with the moral seriousness and psychological precision that defined the best of mid-twentieth-century American fiction, weaving together themes of creativity, mortality, and self-deception into a narrative of extraordinary depth. His prose is spare yet luminous, carrying the quiet devastation of Chekhov alongside the ethical weight of the Jewish-American literary tradition he helped define. Dubin's Lives stands as one of Malamud's most ambitious and personal works — a novel that asks, with quiet urgency, whether it is ever too late to truly know oneself.