Magic Bucket

About This Novel

"The Magic Barrel" is a collection of Malamud's thirteen short stories, set in New York and Rome. He combines Yiddish proverbs with a dash of artistic magic with strong urban realism to tell the lives of small characters such as shoemakers, egg inspectors, and matchmakers. The theme inherits the consistent elements of failure, frustration, exhaustion, loneliness, aging and other elements. It's a sad list, yet each story is laced with wry humor and bold fantasy. The author Bernard Malamud has won two National Book Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Rosenthal Award and other awards. The book won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards.

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