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The Magic Barrel (Vintage classics) Book
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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.
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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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