The Magic Barrel - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bernard Malamud, Jhumpa LahiriSeries:FSG ClassicsPublish date:2003-07-07Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780374525866ISBN-10:374525862UPC:9780374525866Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanAward:1959 National Book Awards Winner - Fiction AwardSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCQF4PF94C
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.Languages:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780374525866ISBN-10:374525862UPC:9780374525866Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanAward:1959 National Book Awards Winner - Fiction AwardSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCQF4PF94C
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) also wrote eight novels, he won the Pulitzer Prize and a second National Book award for The Fixer. Born in Brooklyn, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont.
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
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🏆 1959 National Book Awards Winner - Fiction Award
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