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Dubin's Lives

Name: Dubin's Lives
Author: Bernard Malamud

Dubin's Lives is the seventh published novel by the American writer Bernard Malamud. The title character is a biographer working on a life of D. H. Lawrence. It first appeared in hardcover from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1979. Portions of the novel originally appeared,

“Those who write about life, reflect about life…. you see in others who you are.”

Bernard Malamud book Dubin's Lives

Dubin's Lives (1979)

“One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.”

Bernard Malamud book Dubin's Lives

Dubin's Lives (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979) p. 27