Dubin’s Lives (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bernard Malamud
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Center Campobello, a small town in upstate New York
- Principal Characters: William Dubin, Kitty Dubin, Fanny Bick, Maud, Gerald
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Husbands, Parents and children, Marriage, Fathers, Adultery, Middle age, Mortality
- Locales: New York
The Novel
Dubin’s Lives chronicles the story of Dubin, a man in his mid-fifties who is undergoing a life crisis. As a biographer who has studied the content of lives, he tries to redirect his own life. Dubin has always been much influenced by the lives he has studied. As the novel opens, he is writing about D. H. Lawrence. As he assimilates Lawrence, he becomes imbued with Lawrence’s sense of the preeminence of the force of sex. Looking to find passion and to change his life, Dubin falls in love with the young housekeeper whom his wife has hired. They talk to each...
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