The magic barrel

Bernard Malamud First published 1958

About this book

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

  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • americans
  • award:national_book_award=1959
  • award:national_book_award=fiction
  • english language
  • english short stories
  • fiction
  • fiction, short stories (single author)
  • japanese
  • jews
  • large type books
  • manners and customs
  • national book award winner
  • painters
  • social life and customs
  • textbooks for foreign speakers
  • travel