The Magic Barrel
The Magic Barrel

Author: Bernard Malamud

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2003-07-07

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 146680551X

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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri Bernard 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 alter ego, the struggleing 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. The Magic Barrel is a book about New York and about the immigrant experience, and it is high point in the modern American short story. Few books of any kind have managed to depict struggle and frustration and heartbreak with such delight, or such artistry.

The Magic Barrel
The Magic Barrel

Author: Bernard Malamud

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0374525862

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A collection of thirteen short fiction stories, set in New York and Italy, by twentieth-century American author Bernard Malamud.

The Magic Barrel
The Magic Barrel

Author: Bernard Malamud

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1446426378

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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.

Idiots First
Idiots First

Author: Bernard Malamud

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0374174202

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Short stories and a scene from a play.

Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel
Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel

Author: Anya Ulinich

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-07-29

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0698170695

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*A New York Times Notable Book* “Funny, painful, outrageous . . . Anya Ulinich is the David Sedaris of Russian-American cartoonists.” —Gary Shteyngart Anya Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange, often unmooring world of “grown-up” dating in this darkly comic graphic novel. After her fifteen-year marriage ends, Lena Finkle gets an eye-opening education in love, sex, and loss when she embarks on a string of online dates, all while raising her two teenage daughters. The Vampire of Bensonhurst, the Orphan, Disaster Man, and the Diamond Psychiatrist are just a few of the unforgettable characters she meets along the way. Evoking Louis C. K.’s humor and Amy Winehouse’s longing and anguish, and paying homage to Malamud and Chekhov, Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel is a funny and moving story, beautifully told.

The Stories of Bernard Malamud
The Stories of Bernard Malamud

Author: Bernard Malamud

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 1983-10-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1466805900

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Compassionate and profound in their wry humor, this collection of stories captures the poetry of human relationships at the point where reality and imagination meet.

The Assistant
The Assistant

Author: Bernard Malamud

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-07-07

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780374504847

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Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italian American, works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood where he develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.

The Tenants
The Tenants

Author: Bernard Malamud

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2003-09-18

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1466804971

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With a new introduction by Aleksandar Hemon In The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenement, Henry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building. Henry and Willie are artistic rivals and unwilling neighbors, and their uneasy peace is disturbed by the presence of Willie's white girlfriend Irene and the landlord Levenspiel's attempts to evict both men and demolish the building. This novel's conflict, current then, is perennial now; it reveals the slippery nature of the human condition, and the human capacity for violence and undoing.

The Natural
The Natural

Author: Bernard Malamud

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1446419126

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This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an immense natural gift for playing baseball. He could become one of the great ones of the game, a player unmatched in his time - a hero. But his first hard-won big chance ends violently, at the hands of a crazy girl, and then it is years before he gets another shot. At last, in a few short seasons, or never, he must achieve the towering reputation that he feels is his right.

The Magic Finger
The Magic Finger

Author: Roald Dahl

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-05-30

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1101636319

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What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Finger takes over. She really can’t control it, and now it's turned the Greggs into birds! Before they know it, the Greggs are living in a nest, and that's just the beginning of their problems….