The Fixer

by Theodore Bikel; Bernard Malamud

Malamud's novel is based on the case of a Jewish worker in Russia who is accused of murder, and his subsequent treatment at the hands of the law and the public.

Editions of The Fixer

ISBN 9780140185157	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1994	Price $2.93	Fine
ISBN 9780140027143	Binding/Format Book	Publisher Penguin Books	Date 1979	Price £1.00	Good
ISBN 9780671801007	Binding/Format Book	Publisher Pocket Books	Date 1976	Price $2.00	Very Good
ISBN 9781850891192	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Ulverscroft Large Print Books	Date 1987	Price $2.99	Used - Acceptable
ISBN 9780374529383	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux	Date 2004	Price $2.01	New
ISBN 9780374155728	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux	Date 1966	Price $4.25	Very Good
ISBN 9781560004844	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Transaction Pub Large Print	Date 1999	Price $66.95	New
ISBN 9780671460754	Binding/Format Adobe Reader	Publisher Pocket Books	Date 1982	Price $1.00	Used, Good
ISBN 9780671689513	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Pocket Books	Date 1989	Price $2.00	VERY-FINE
ISBN 9780394299549	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Random House	Date 1985	Price None Available

Media Reviews

"[Malamud has allowed] an utterly credible man to be victimized by all the painful and humiliating abuses the most abused anti-hero might be subjected to and he has brought him out of the fire not dehumanized by more fully and authentically a human being. With complete and passionate integrity he is denying one of the most paralyzing fears of our times: that individual goodness cannot survive the evils of history....It is as convincing and affecting an act of grace as the American novel has seen in a long time. In discussing 'The Fixer' it is easy to turn the book into a moralistic abstract. That would be a misrepresentation. These pages are as thick and pungent as a piece of black bread, with [a] special Chekhovian texture....It cannot help but make an impact on the American literature scene."

First Line

From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running somewhere early that morning, everybody in the same direction. Vey iz mir, he thought uneasily, something bad has happened.

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