Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/04/2002
ISBN: 9780099433453
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm
Weight: 129g
RRP: £9.99
Arthur Fidelman, Bronx-born and raised, is a self-confessed failure as a painter. When he goes to Italy to prepare a critical study of Giotto, a picaresque tale of comedy and adventure ensues. Pursued through the streets of Rome by the refugee Susskind, falling into the hands of art thieves, hand-carving wooden Madonnas, becoming a pimp, attempting to sculpt the perfect hole, Fidelman is a comic creation of genius.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/04/2002
ISBN: 9780099433453
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm
Weight: 129g
RRP: £9.99
A delightful piece of work, and it shows a major artist's mastery of his medium... Fidelman is a superb picaresque hero, and the novel is always entertaining, often hilariously so
The accent of a hard-won and individual emotional truth is always heard in Malamud's words. He is a rich original of the first rank.
In Mr Malamud we may indeed salute a new American writer of power and originality. He has a wonderful sense of character and atmosphere
One of the best writers in the English language... His work embeds itself in one's consciousness and refuses to be dislodged