A new life
By: Bernard Malamud.
Edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux pbk. ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780374529499
Subjects: College teachers -- Fiction.; Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves New York for the Pacific Northwest to start over, imagining that an extraordinary new life awaits him there. Soon after arriving, he realizes that he had fallen for the myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.