- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) (June 1966)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0374155720
- ISBN-13: 978-0374155728
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
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"Brilliant [and] harrowing . . . Historical reality combined with fictional skill and beauty of a high order make [it] a novel of startling importance." ---Elizabeth Hardwick, Vogue
"What makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity...This novel, like all great novels reminds us that we must do something." -- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated
"The Fixer deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth." --The Independent (London)
"A literary event in any season." --Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times
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"What makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity...This novel, like all great novels reminds us that we must do something." -- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated
"The Fixer deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth." --The Independent (London)
"A literary event in any season." --Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times
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Set in Czarist Russia, The Fixer is the story of the strains and anxieties that beset a man who finds himself a stranger in his community and a victim of irrational prejudice as a wave of anti-Semitic hysteria engulfs a town after the murder of a boy.
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From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running somewhere early that morning, everybody in the same direction. Read the first page
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From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running somewhere early that morning, everybody in the same direction. Read the first page
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Slow,
This review is from: 20th Century Fixer (Mass Market Paperback)
What is fascinating is that this story is actualy based on that of Mendel Beilis, a Jewish fixer, arrested in 1911 for the alleged murder of a 12 year old. The story, though moving in its portrayal of suffering and helplessness amid what is obviously a false charge, is still excessively slow. None the less, it reveals the superstitiousness, gullibility and anti-semitic feeling prevalent in Kiev, and indeed all Russia, at the time.
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This review is from: Fixer (Paperback)
THE FIXER IS A STORY ABOUT A POOR JEWISH MAN, KNOWN AS A FIXER, BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT HE DOES, REPAIRS AND FIXES THINGS TO MAKE MONEY. LOOKING FOR A WAY TO MAKE A BETTER LIFE FOR HIMSELF IN RUSSIA BEFORE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION DURING THE REIGN OF THE LAST ZSAR, NICKOLIS. THROUGH A SERIES OF EVENTS THE FIXER LANDS A JOB IN THE DISTRICT OF TOWN WHERE JEWS ARE PROHIBITED TO LIVE AND WORK. A BOY IS FOUND MURDERED, AND BECAUSE THE FIXER IS JEWISH AND ILLEGALLY LIVING AND WORKING IN THIS PART OF TOWN, SUSPICION IS CAST UPON HIM AND HE IS BLAMED FOR THE BOY'S MURDER AND PUT INTO PRISION. LIFE NOW BECOMES A NIGHTMARE AND A STRUGGLE FOR THE FIXER TO STAY ALIVE AND MAINTAIN HIS SANITY WHILE NEVER GIVING INTO THE AUTHORITIES DEMAND FOR HIS CONFESSION.THE STORY OF THE FIXER MAKES YOU REALIZE HOW IMPORTANT FREEDMOM IS AND IT IS A CRIME TO TAKE IT FOR GRANTED. NO MATTER HOW BAD LIFE CAN BE IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Story of Fortitude,
By A .J. Casper (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fixer (Paperback)
Yet another case of man's inhumanity to fellow beings. The story is a fiction, but could very well be a true one. Yakov Bok is a remarkable character who hung on to dear life, even in instances where the average person would have just given up. Bibikov brought some beam of hope into Bok's life, only to be taken too soon - an example of hope being shattered in the most desperate of situations. Familiar? The story was well written and is easy to relate to. It's a fiction that is consistant with historical facts. It is highly reminiscent of Nazi Germany and the experiences of Jews in general all over the world. Most admirable, however, was the relationship between Bok and Shmuel (his father-in-law). This book is a must-read!
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