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Title:

THE MAGIC BARREL

By:

Bernard Malamud

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0099436981

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9780099436980

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Publisher:

VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

6 June, 2002

Pages:

192

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.

Synopsis:

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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Vintage

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