God’s Grace

Bernard Malamud

1982

At the end, after the thermonuclear war between the Djanks and Druzhkies, in consequence of which they had destroyed themselves, and, madly, all other inhabitants of the earth, God spoke through a glowing crack in a bulbous black cloud to Calvin Cohn, the paleologist, who of all men had miraculously survived in a battered oceanography vessel with…

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Bernard Malamud

1914–1986

Brought up in Brooklyn, New York, Bernard Malamud was a major novelist and short story writer. The honorary consultant in American letters to the Library of Congress, Malamud also taught English at Bennington College. He received the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the O. Henry Award.

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