The Magic Barrel

The Magic Barrel
1st edition dust-jacket
AuthorBernard Malamud
Cover artistMilton Glaser[1]
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction (short stories)
Set inNew York City and Italy
Published1958
Jewish Publication Society
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Publication placeUS
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages214
AwardsNational Book Award for Fiction (1959)
OCLC289279
Preceded byThe Assistant (1957) 
Followed byA New Life (1961) 

The Magic Barrel is a 1958 collection of thirteen short stories written by Bernard Malamud and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Also, the Jewish Publication Society released its own edition at the same time. It won the 1959 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2] It was also Malamud's debut collection of stories.

  1. ^ Modern first editions - a set on Flickr
  2. ^ "National Book Awards – 1959". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
    (With essays by Liz Rosenberg and Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)