The Magic Barrel

Hardcover, 214 pages

English language

Published April 12, 1958 by Farrar Straus & Cudahy.

OCLC Number:
289279
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In reviewing Barnard Malamud's book, The Assistant, Alfred Kazin wrote: "As one can see in his highly surrealistic baseball novel, The Natural, and in his eerie Partisan Review story of a Jewish marriage broker, The Magic Barrel, Malamud is naturally a fantasist of the ordinary, the commonplace, the average. . . . In the superb The Magic Barrel Malamud really caught the accents of the hallucinated, the visionary, and the bizarre. . . . The word 'magic' naturally occurs in Malamud's best work—or when he is at his best. And then, as befits a writer who has lived 'in the Jewish experience,' it serves to clarify and intensify our sense of what that experience really is."

This famous take of Leo Finkle, a rabbinical student looking for a wife with the help of Pinye Salzman, a marriage broker, is now presented as the title story of Mr. …

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  • Americans -- Italy -- Fiction
  • Jews -- Fiction
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
  • Italy -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

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