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In A New Life, Bernard Malamud - generally thought of as a distinctly New York copy writer - took on the American misconception of the Western as a location of personal reinvention. When Sy Levin, a high school educator beset by liquor and bad decisions, leaves the location for the Pacific Northwest to start over, it's no real surprise that he conjures a eye-sight of the extraordinary new lease of life awaiting him there: "He imagined the pioneers in covered wagons joining this valley for the very first time. Although he previously lived little in nature Levin experienced always loved it, and the sense of experiencing done the right part of leaving New York was restored in him." Soon after his appearance at Cascadia University, however, Levin realizes he has been used by a mirage. The failures pile up anew, and Levin, terminated from his post, locates himself back where he started out and little the wiser for this. A New Life as Jonathan Lethem's benefits makes clear - is Malamud at his best: along with his belief in fortune and new beginnings Sy Levin embodies the thwarted yearning for transcendence that is at the heart of most Malamud's work.
