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The Magic Barrel

by Bernard Malamud

237 pages2003MacmillanISBN 9780374525866

About this book

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

Publication Details

Publisher
Macmillan
Published
2003
Pages
237
ISBN
9780374525866
Language
en

About Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel *The Natural* was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel *The Fixer* (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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