The Magic Barrel

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Author:

Malamud, Bernard

ISBN:

978-0-09-943698-0

Publication Date:

Apr 2014

Publisher:

Penguin Random House

Imprint:

Vintage

Book Format:

Paperback

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Book Description:

A matchmaker finds love for a would-be rabbi; a shopkeeper dies because he cannot afford a doctor; a little girl steals candy; an angel visits a grieving tailor. Through Malamud's great gifts as a writer - humour and profound concern for the matter of human life - he transmutes the particular struggles of everyday sufferers into a strange poetry.

Book Details

Pages:	192
Detailed Subjects:	Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.109 x 7.761 x 0.429 Inches
Book Weight:	0.365 Pounds

Author Biography

Malamud, Bernard (Author)

Bernard Malamud was born in 1914 in New York City and later received his B. A. from City College of New York and his M. A. from Columbia University.

All of Malamud's works are highly respected, including "Armistice" (his first), "The Magic Barrel," which won the National Book Award, "The Fixer," which received a Pulitzer Prize. "The Assistant," "The Natural," "The Fixer," and "The Angel Levine," which were all adapted as films.

Bernard Malamud died in 1986.

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