Description
| Product ID: | 9780099436980 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Magic Barrel |
| Authors: | Author: Bernard Malamud |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-06-06 |
