Download or read book A New Life written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves New York for the Pacific Northwest to start over, imagining that an extraordinary new life awaits him there. Soon after arriving, he realizes that he had fallen for the myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.