The Magic Barrel
Editorial FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
Festland Spanien
- Verlag FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
- ISBN13 9780374525866
- ISBN10 0374525862
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 214
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2003
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
Abschnitte
English LiteraturThe Magic Barrel
Editorial FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
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.