The Magic Barrel

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.

subjects: Americans,  Fiction,  Jews,  National Book Award Winner,  Painters,  Social life and customs,  Travel,  award:national_book_award=1959,  award:national_book_award=fiction,  Manners and customs,  Large type books,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, short stories (single author),  Textbooks for foreign speakers,  Japanese,  English language,  English Short stories

Places: Italy,  New York (N.Y.)