by Bernard Malamud (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 06 Jun 2002
ISBN 10: 0099436981
ISBN 13: 9780099436980
Book Overview: 'The experience of reading The Magic Barrel was akin to a rite of initiation... The stories settled swiftly and deeply into my consciousness; now that I have read them, I cannot believe there was ever a time I had not' Jhumpa Lahiri