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The Magic Barrel (Vintage classics) Book

Many of the characters in these short stories are Jewish, but through the author's gentle exploration of their predicaments, he illuminates a region that is common to everyone.Read More

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  • Foyles

    In this collection of stories Malamud displays his great gifts as a writer - his humour, his profound concern for all human life and his ability to transmute common things and people into a strange poetry. Many of his characters are Jewish (the title story, for example, is about a rabbinical student trying to find a wife through a very peculiar marriage broker) but through his gentle and haunting exploration of their predicaments he illuminates a region that is common to every man's world.

  • Blackwell

    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. This book transmutes the particular struggles of everyday sufferers into a strange...

  • 0099436981
  • 9780099436980
  • Bernard Malamud
  • 6 June 2002
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
  • New edition
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