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The magic barrel by Bernard Malamud · Booklabria

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The magic barrel

Short StoriesSocial life and customs

The magic barrel

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First published: 1953
Editions: 65 in 9 languages

Synopsis

This is Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories. 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.

Subjects: Short Stories
Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Travel
Jews
Textbooks for foreign speakers
Set in: New York
Italy

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65 in 9 languages

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English40 Dutch2 Chinese1 Danish1 All 9 languages

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