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"Malamud's Unsubmerged Man"
by Lisa Tate, Bennington, VM
October 21, 1961
"S. Levin is ready to live, to love from the moment we meet him as he steps off the train in a small town in Cascadia (read Oregon), where he is at the age of 30 to take up a teaching career at Cascadia College. A bearded ex-alcoholic who has never before been out of New York City, Levin is seeking escape from a humiliating past and searching tentatively for a new life in a new setting."
