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Reviewer Scores Malamud's 'God's Grace'

By ARNOLD AGES
Prof., University of Toronto

Malamud,
Bernard
author of such unique
novels as "The Assistant,"
"The Natural" and "The
Fixer," has decided to inno-
vate in his latest creative ef-
fort, "God's Grace" (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux). He has
invented, for want of abet-
ter term, science fiction
with a Yiddish accent.
After reading his current
story readers will wish that
Malamud had remained
within the old traditional
genres.
He gives the impression
in this latest chronicle that
Charleton Heston and "The
Planet of the Apes" should
be re-cast in a Jewish idiom.

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Malamud's attempt to do
just that in "God's Grace"
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