The Magic Barrel

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ISBN-10:

0099436981

ISBN-13:

9780099436980

Author(s): BERNARD MALAMUD
Released: Jun 06, 2002
Format: Paperback, 0 pages
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Description:

In this collection of stories Malamud displays his great gifts as a writer - his humour his profound concern for all human life and his ability to transmute common things and people into a strange poetry Many of his characters are Jewish the title story for example is about a rabbinical student trying to find a wife through a very peculiar marriage broker but through his gentle and haunting exploration of their predicaments he illuminates a region that is common to every mans world












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