The Magic Barrel

Name: The Magic Barrel
Author: Bernard Malamud

by Bernard Malamud

Story collection exploring Jewish identity, morality, and redemption in contemporary America

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Bernard Malamud

American novelist and short-story writer whose The Natural and The Fixer are among the great American novels. His work explores Jewish-American experience with moral seriousness and mythic resonance. He was a central figure of postwar American literature.

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The NaturalNovel about a baseball player's meteoric rise and tragic fall infused with mythic resonance
The AssistantNovel of a poor Jewish man's moral redemption through servitude to a grocery store owner
The FixerNovel following a Jewish handyman falsely imprisoned in Tsarist Russia for a murder
A New LifeNovel about a professor's midlife crisis and failed attempt to reinvent his life in the West
Dubin's LivesNovel about an aging biographer's affair and confrontation with his literary subject's widow