The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri
Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggleing New York Jewish Painter Arthur Fidelman, roams amid the ruins of old Europe in search of his artistic patrimony); they tell of egg candlers and shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and a dash of artistic magic.
The Magic Barrel is a book about New York and about the immigrant experience, and it is high point in the modern American short story. Few books of any kind have managed to depict struggle and frustration and heartbreak with such delight, or such artistry.
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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The Complete Stories
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The Sabbath
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The White Album
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Memoirs Of Hadrian
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Mystery and Manners
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The Kingdom of This World
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King Jesus
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Collected Poems of Lorca
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The Fixer
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Old Gringo
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The Dream Songs
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Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories
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Selected Stories
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Life Studies and For the Union Dead
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
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Dom Casmurro
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Notebook
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Shadows on the Hudson
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House of Mist
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Passage to Ararat
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Poet in New York
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On Grief and Reason: Essays
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Berlin/Wall
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The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon
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The Asiatics
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Christopher and His Kind
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A Cool Million Dream Life Balso Snell
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Slaves in the Family
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Gimpel the Fool
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A New Life
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The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Bernard Malamud (1914-86) was a novelist who received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Fixer, as well as the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel. He was born in Brooklyn and spent many years teaching at Bennington College in Vermont.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780374525866 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374525862 |
| Title | The Magic Barrel |
| Author | Bernard Malamud |
| Series | Fsg Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Year published | 2003-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Awards (Fiction) 1959 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |