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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.
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The Magic Barrel, Bernard Malamud
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- 1999
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- Title
- The Magic Barrel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Bernard Malamud
- Publisher
- FSG
- Publisher
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0374525862
- ISBN13
- 9780374525866
- Category
- World prose
- Description
- 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.