The Magic Barrel
of Bernard Malamud, Jhumpa Lahiri (Introduction)
Description
Winner of the National Book Award for FictionBernard 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 struggling 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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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240 pages
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication Date July 7th 2003
- First Publication 10/30/50
- Language English
- ISBN 9780374525866
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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مانديل بائع الكتب القديمة
Stefan Zweig, ستيفان زفايغ, أبو بكر العيادي (Translator)
Nejaušību eņģelis
Edgar Allan Poe, Indra Aumale (translator), Ingūna Beķere (translator), Vizma Belševica (translator), Helma Lapiņa (translator)
