With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon Dubins Lives 1979 is acompassionate and wry commedia a book praised by Christopher LehmannHaupt inThe New York Times as... » 

With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon Dubins Lives 1979 is acompassionate and wry commedia a book praised by Christopher LehmannHaupt inThe New York Times as Malamuds best novel since The Assistant Possiblyit is the best he has written of all. Its protagonist is one of Malamudsfinest characters prizewinning biographer William Dubin who learns fromlives or thinks he does those he writes those he shares the life he lives.Now in his later middle age he seeks his own secret self and the obsession ofbiography is supplanted by the obsession of lovelove for a woman half is agewho has sought an understanding of her life through his books. Dubins Livesis a rich subtle book as well as a moving tale of love and marriage. «