The magic barrel.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Americans -- Italy -- Fiction; Jews -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Italy -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Short stories.

"First printing."

Table of contents: title: The first seven years; title: The mourners; title: The girl of my dreams; title: Angel Levine; title: Behold the key; title: Take pity; title: The prison; title: The lady of the lake; title: A summer's reading; title: The bill; title: The last Mohican; title: The loan; title: The magic barre.