Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work.

New York, NY Columbia University Press, 1996. Hardcover First Ed; First Printing indicated. SIGNED BY ALAN CHEUSE. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows only minute indications of use; shows small, light stain at lower edge at outside corner; former bookseller's sticker at front free endpaper; binding square and secure; text clean. DJ unclipped; mylar-protected. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 220pp. Edited bh Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco. Hardback with DJ. Collection of interviews, speeches, lectures, notes, and essays. Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Cheuse two younger colleagues of Bernard Malamud collected speeches, occasional writings, whatever they could find in which Malamud spoke about his writing, and to a lesser degree, his life. Malamud was a dedicated craftsman, a modest and devoted artist, whose love for the short story is strongly emphasized in this collection. Cynthia Ozick writes of it, "In these pages the Malamudian intellect is so clear, the humanistic sweetness so dear, the literary credo so pure, that it is almost as if the writer's living presence-in all its urgent truthfulness - were magically restores to us." SIGNED BY THE EDITOR.