The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud

The Magic Barrel

Bernard Malamud with Jhumpa Lahiri

fiction classics short stories reflective slow-paced

240 pages | first published 1950

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Winner of the National Book Award for FictionBernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's al...
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