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1953
The magic barrel
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This is Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggling 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.
Creators
Travel
Fiction
Manners and customs
Social life and customs
Large type books
english language
Textbooks for foreign speakers
Fiction, short stories (single author)
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Japanese
English Short stories
Americans
Jews
Painters
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National Book Award Winner
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