The Fixer

By Bernard Malamud

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Fixer is a 1966 novel by Bernard Malamud, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Based on the Beilis case, it follows Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman in Tsarist Kiev who is falsely accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy and endures years of imprisonment without trial.

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• Stephen King: “On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition (Scribner, 2010), per afterword list in On Writing (10th anniv. ed.)”