# The Magic Barrel

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- Authors: [Bernard Malamud](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-malamud)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2014-04-03
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Short stories

## Description

A matchmaker finds love for a would-be rabbi; a shopkeeper dies because he cannot afford a doctor; a little girl steals candy; an angel visits a grieving tailor. Through Malamud's great gifts as a writer - humour and profound concern for the matter of human life - he transmutes the particular struggles of everyday sufferers into a strange poetry.

## Editions

### The Magic Barrel

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4642-637-1
- Published: 2017-07-27
- Language: en_GB

### The Magic Barrel

- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9943-698-0
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2014-04-03
- Language: en_GB