About this book
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 shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and a dash of artistic magic.
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AmericansFictionJewsNational Book Award WinnerPaintersSocial life and customsTravelaward:national_book_award=1959award:national_book_award=fictionManners and customsLarge type booksAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, short stories (single author)Textbooks for foreign speakersJapaneseEnglish languageEnglish Short stories