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A review by zachkuhn
The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant
5.0
Dara Horn called it a masterpiece in her essay "Against Holocaust Novels."
The late, great D.G. Myers wrote, "The Pawnbroker is not really a Holocaust novel at all. It is something different. And at least when it comes to the American novel, something better. The Pawnbroker is one of the last examples of a genre that has largely disappeared from American shores — the meaning-making novel, the novel with something to say, the novel with an overt and unembarrassed message."
All I have to say is that it moved me and it's beautiful. That's enough.
The late, great D.G. Myers wrote, "The Pawnbroker is not really a Holocaust novel at all. It is something different. And at least when it comes to the American novel, something better. The Pawnbroker is one of the last examples of a genre that has largely disappeared from American shores — the meaning-making novel, the novel with something to say, the novel with an overt and unembarrassed message."
All I have to say is that it moved me and it's beautiful. That's enough.