The Magic Barrel

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805514

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The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud Pdf

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 : Anya Ulinich
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780143125242

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Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich Pdf

*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 : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1963-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805910

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Idiots First by Bernard Malamud Pdf

This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes: Idiots First Black Is My Favorite Color Still Life The Death of Me A Choice of Profession Life Is Better Than Death The Jewbird Naked Nude The Cost of Living The Maid's Shoes Suppose a Wedding The German Refugee

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805033

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The Natural by Bernard Malamud Pdf

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 : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805002

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The Assistant by Bernard Malamud Pdf

The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store. Like Malamud's best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and great expectations. Malamud defined the immigrant experience in a way that has proven vital for several generations of writers. "His best novel . . . The Assistant is as tightly written as a prose poem." --Morris Dickstein in Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction 1945-1970

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466804975

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The Tenants by Bernard Malamud Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1023572936

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The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud Pdf

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805903

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The Stories of Bernard Malamud by Bernard Malamud Pdf

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 : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782393535

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The Fixer by Bernard Malamud Pdf

Winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Kiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelled at the Jews. Yakov Bok - a handyman hiding his Jewish identity from his anti-Semitic employer - is first outed and blamed. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit. What becomes of this man under pressure, for whom acquittal is made to seem as hopeless as conviction, is the subject of a terrifying masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction. Acclaim for Malamud: 'Malamud is a rich original of the first rank' Saul Bellow 'Malamud has never produced a mediocre novel... He is always profoundly convincing' Anthony Burgess 'One of Malamud's extraordinary gifts has always been for lifting the realistic world up, into the realm of metaphysical fantasy. Another has been to take life, lives, seriously' Malcolm Bradbury 'One of those rare writers who makes other writers eat their hearts out' Melvyn Bragg Of Malamud's short stories: 'I have discovered a short-story writer who is better than any of them, including myself' Flannery O'Connor

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805040

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A New Life by Bernard Malamud Pdf

"An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan Lethem In A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention. When Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves the city for the Pacific Northwest to start over, it's no surprise that he conjures a vision of the extraordinary new life awaiting him there: "He imagined the pioneers in covered wagons entering this valley for the first time. Although he had lived little in nature Levin had always loved it, and the sense of having done the right thing in leaving New York was renewed in him." Soon after his arrival at Cascadia College, however, Levin realizes he has been taken in by a mirage. The failures pile up anew, and Levin, fired from his post, finds himself back where he started and little the wiser for it. A New Life--as Jonathan Lethem's introduction makes clear--is Malamud at his best: with his belief in luck and new beginnings Sy Levin embodies the thwarted yearning for transcendence that is at the heart of all Malamud's work.

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805934

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Rembrandt's Hat by Bernard Malamud Pdf

This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes: The Silver Crown Man in the Drawer The Letter In Retirement Rembrandt's Hat Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party My Son the Murderer Talking Horse

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429930895

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The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud Pdf

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 : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251399540

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The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud Pdf

Author : Janna Malamud Smith
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781619021013

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My Father is a Book by Janna Malamud Smith Pdf

Bernard Malamud was one of the most accomplished American novelists of the postwar years. From the Pulitzer Prize winner The Fixer as well as The Assistant, named one of the best "100 All–Time Novels" by Time Magazine—to mention only two of the more than a dozen published books—he not only established himself in the first rank of American writers but also took the country's literature in new and important directions. In her signature memoir, Smith explores her renowned father's life and literary legacy. Malamud was among the most brilliant novelists of his era, and counted among his friends Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Theodore Roethke, and Shirley Jackson. Yet Malamud was also very private. Only his family has had full access to his personal papers, including letters and journals that offer unique insight into the man and his work. In her candid, evocative, and loving memoir, his daughter brings Malamud to vivid life.

Author : Joel Salzberg
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015013942779

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Critical Essays on Bernard Malamud by Joel Salzberg Pdf