The magic barrel.

This is Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggling 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 shoe...

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Main Author:	Malamud, Bernard
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1958]
Subjects:	Americans > Italy > Fiction. Jews > Fiction. Juifs > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Americans. Jews. Manners and customs. New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > Fiction. Italy > Social life and customs > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Mœurs et coutumes > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Italie > Mœurs et coutumes > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Italy. New York (State) > New York. Novels. Fictional Work novels. short stories. Short stories. Fiction. Romans. Nouvelles.