The Magic Barrel And Other Stories: The First Seven Years;the Mourners;the Girl of my Dreams;Angel Levine;Behold the Key;take Pity;the Prison;the Lady ... Last Mohican;the Loan;the Magic Barrel

by Bernard Malamud (Author)

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  Paperback
  1968

  $4.49

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  Paperback
  2002

  $4.99

  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.