The Magic Barrel

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 146680551X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic Barrel written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374525862
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic Barrel written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen short fiction stories, set in New York and Italy, by twentieth-century American author Bernard Malamud.

Author : Anya Ulinich
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143125249
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel written by Anya Ulinich and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *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.

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374174202
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Idiots First written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories and a scene from a play.

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466805900
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stories of Bernard Malamud written by Bernard Malamud and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1983-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146680503X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural written by Bernard Malamud and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin Baker The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material—the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era—and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin's comment still holds true: "Malamud has done something which—now that he has done it!—looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology."

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374504847
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assistant written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804971
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenants written by Bernard Malamud and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429930896
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Stories written by Bernard Malamud and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Notable Book of the Year Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997 With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the book as they might a displaced person in one of Malamud's stories, now returned to us, complete and fulfilled and recognized at last. The volume gathers together fifty-five stories, from "Armistice" (1940) to "Alma Redeemed" (1984), and including the immortal stories from The Magic Barrel and the vivid depictions of the unforgettable Fidelman. It is a varied and generous collection of great examples of the modern short story, which Malamud perfected, and an ideal introduction to the work of this great American writer.

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101636319
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic Finger written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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….