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The Magic Barrel
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: Jul 7th, 2003
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.70in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780374525866
- Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Literary• World Literature - American - 20th Century
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What people are saying
Jai Chakrabarti is a writer.
Here I am holding my treasured copy of Bernard Malamud's The Magic Barrel - join me next week on the 21st as I discuss how this collection influenced how I think about the short story and the possibilities of the form. https://t.co/eBrtimJeZN https://t.co/Z3pPaS75qG
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Bernard Malamud, born #OTD in 1914, was, said Saul Bellow, “a rich original of the first rank.” Winner of two National Book Awards (for 1958’s “The Magic Barrel” and 1966’s “The Fixer”) and a Pulitzer (for “The Fixer”), he also wrote the classic baseball novel “The Natural.” https://t.co/WKvVOOYkrG
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Bernard Malamud’s THE MAGIC BARREL changed writer @JaiChakrabarti's life. Listen to a convo between Jai and @JewishBook's Becca Kantor where they will discuss Malamud, Jai's own career, and the National Jewish Book Awards. Feb 21 at 7pm @mm_jccmanhattan. https://t.co/404z45SQhN https://t.co/igLV8CYG9j
Praise for this book
"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
What people are saying
Jai Chakrabarti is a writer.
Here I am holding my treasured copy of Bernard Malamud's The Magic Barrel - join me next week on the 21st as I discuss how this collection influenced how I think about the short story and the possibilities of the form. https://t.co/eBrtimJeZN https://t.co/Z3pPaS75qG
Nonprofit publisher dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing.
Bernard Malamud, born #OTD in 1914, was, said Saul Bellow, “a rich original of the first rank.” Winner of two National Book Awards (for 1958’s “The Magic Barrel” and 1966’s “The Fixer”) and a Pulitzer (for “The Fixer”), he also wrote the classic baseball novel “The Natural.” https://t.co/WKvVOOYkrG