God\'s Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud\'s last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood -- a radical departure from Malamud\'s previous fiction.
Born in Brooklyn, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont..
He not only wrote in the American language, he augmented it with fresh plasticity, he shaped our English into startling new configurations." --Cynthia Ozick About the Author: Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Fixer (FSG, 2004), and the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel (FSG, 2003), a collection of stories. "Is he an American Master? Of course.
The novel\'s fresh and pervasive humor, narrative ingenuity, and tragic sense of the human condition make it one of Malamud\'s most extraordinary books.
With God\'s Grace, Malamud took a great risk, and it paid off.
Cohn works hard to make it possible for God to love His creation again, and his hopes increase as he encounters the unknown and the unforeseen in this strange new world.
Soon other creatures appear on their island-baboons, chimps, five apes, and a lone gorilla.
This rabbi\'s son -- a "marginal error" -- finds himself shipwrecked with an experimental chimpanzee capable of speech, to whom he gives the name Buz.
The novel\'s protagonist is paleolosist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending to his work at the bottom of the ocean when the Devastation struck, and who alone survived.
God\'s Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud\'s last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood -- a radical departure from Malamud\'s previous fiction
