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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374525862

ISBN-139780374525866

eBay Product ID (ePID)469548

Product Key Features

Book TitleMagic Barrel : Stories

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorBernard Malamud

Book SeriesFsg Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.8 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-104944

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition19

Reviews"In the short story, Malamud achieved an almost psalmlike compression. He has been called the Jewish Hawthorne, but he might just as well be thought a Jewish Chopin, a prose composer of preludes and noctures." -- Mark Shechner, Partisan Review "There are thirteen stoires in The Magic Barrel and every one of them is a small, highly individualized work of art. This is the kind of book that calls for not admiration but gratitude." -- Richard Sullivan, The Chicago Tribune, "In the short story, Malamud achieved an almost psalmlike compression. He has been called the Jewish Hawthorne, but he might just as well be thought a Jewish Chopin, a prose composer of preludes and noctures."--Mark Shechner, Partisan Review "There are thirteen stoires in The Magic Barrel and every one of them is a small, highly individualized work of art. This is the kind of book that calls for not admiration but gratitude."--Richard Sullivan, The Chicago Tribune, In the short story, Malamud achieved an almost psalmlike compression. He has been called the Jewish Hawthorne, but he might just as well be thought a Jewish Chopin, a prose composer of preludes and noctures., There are thirteen stoires in The Magic Barrel and every one of them is a small, highly individualized work of art. This is the kind of book that calls for not admiration but gratitude.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisWinner 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3563.A4M3 2003