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A Memorable Character is Born in Malamud's "New Life"
By Dennis Powers, Oakland, CA
October 1, 1961
"Malamud's finely developed, irresistible central character is the bearded Jew, Seymour Levin, who, as the novel begins, arrives from New York to take a teaching job at a Pacific Northwest college which has some similarities to Oregon State."
