The Magic Barrel Author:Bernard Malamud PAPERBACK 1972 — The Magic Barrel is the first collection of stories byBernard Malamud, author of the Pulitzer Prize novel The Fixer and twice winner of the National Book Award for fiction. Resonant with the joys and pains of life, these are stories with the power to touch the reader, and their appearance in this book was remarked by every critic... more » as the emergence of a major new writing talent.« less