A New Life (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bernard Malamud
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Plot: Contemporary realism
- Time of Work: The early 1950’s
- Setting: Northwestern United States
- Principal Characters: Seymour Levin, Gerald Gilley, Pauline Gilley, Orville Fairchild, C. D. Fabrikant
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers
- Locales: Northwest (U.S.)
The Novel
Seymour Levin of New York City (“formerly a drunkard”) comes to Easchester, in the northwestern state of Cascadia, to join the faculty of Cascadia College as an instructor in English. He arrives at the small town looking forward to a new life in a halcyon rural setting, but the first of many disillusionments that this bearded, onetime high school teacher experiences is his discovery that Cascadia is a science and technology school, having lost the liberal arts “shortly after the First World War” to its rival sister institution at the state capital. What is...
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