A New Life

Name: A New Life
Author: Bernard Malamud
ISBN: 9789630701167

by Bernard Malamud

1961 · literary fiction · adult

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Set in 1 place · 1 primary

Sense of Place

4/5

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Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves New York for the Pacific Northwest to start over, imagining that an extraordinary new life awaits him there. Soon after arriving, he realizes that he had fallen for the myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.