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The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
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The Magic Barrel

by Bernard Malamud

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Fine, readable, and compressed short stories, often involving uprooted or transient people (travelling writers, immigrants, tourists) and written in the early 50's with the memory of WW2 and the holocaust still firmly placed in the minds of the protagonists and the author. Deftly examines themes of Jewish spirituality, honesty, and how people treat one another. ( )
  abirdman | Aug 17, 2009 |
3197. The Magic Barrel, By Bernard Malamud (read May 17, 1999) This is a book of short stories which won the 1959 National Book Award. This was a sheer delight to read. Ordinarily I shy away from books of short stories because every few pages one needs to get started all afresh on the story. But the stories in this book have such a sure and seemingly authentic touch that one needs to read only a few paragraphs and one is thoroly caught up in the story. This was a sheerly worthwhile and enjoyable book. ( )
  Schmerguls | Dec 5, 2007 |
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What a masterpiece of compression—yet with the lightness and swiftness of a Rembrandt sketch.
 
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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Introduction by Jhumpa LahiriBernard 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.

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