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The Magic Barrel

2003-07-07 Fiction
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Release : 2003-07-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 51X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Magic Barrel by : Bernard Malamud

Download or read book The Magic Barrel written by Bernard Malamud. This book was released on 2003-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggleing 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. The Magic Barrel is a book about New York and about the immigrant experience, and it is high point in the modern American short story. Few books of any kind have managed to depict struggle and frustration and heartbreak with such delight, or such artistry.

My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More)

2014-02-04 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2014-02-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 435/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More) by : Dario Fo

Download or read book My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More) written by Dario Fo. This book was released on 2014-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary coming-of-age memoir by the Nobel-Prize-winning playwright My First Seven Years is Dario Fo's fantastic, enchanting memoir of his youth spent in Northern Italy on the shores of Lago Maggiore. As a child, Fo grew up in a picturesque village teeming with glass-blowers, smugglers and storytellers. Of his teenage years, Fo recounts the struggles of the Fascists and Partisans, the years of World War II, and his own tragicomic experience trying to desert the Fascist army. In a series of colorful vignettes, Fo draws us into a remarkable early life filled with characters and anecdotes that would become the inspiration for his own creative genius.

Mom Milestones

2022-03-29 Design
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Release : 2022-03-29
Genre : Design
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Book Rating : 478/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mom Milestones by : Grace Farris

Download or read book Mom Milestones written by Grace Farris. This book was released on 2022-03-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with one-day-old mom, who may feel like she is learning a new language, 'Mom Milestones' is a love letter to the myriad ways moms grow and adapt to motherhood."--Page 2 of cover.

Seven Years

2011-03-22 Fiction
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Release : 2011-03-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 940/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Seven Years by : Peter Stamm

Download or read book Seven Years written by Peter Stamm. This book was released on 2011-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women—and he can’t make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury. But when the seven-year itch sets in, their exhaustion at working long hours coupled with their failed attempts at starting a family get the best of them. Alex soon finds himself kindling an affair with his college lover, Ivona. The young Polish woman who worked in a Catholic mission is the polar opposite of Sonia: dull, passive, taciturn, and plain. Despite having little in common with Ivona, Alex is inexplicably drawn to her while despising himself for it. Torn between his highbrow marriage and his lowbrow affair, Alex is stuck within a spiraling threesome. But when Ivona becomes pregnant, life takes an unexpected turn, and Alex is puzzled more than ever by the mysteries of his heart. Peter Stamm, one of Switzerland’s most acclaimed writers, is at his best exploring the complexities of human relationships. Seven Years is a distinct, sobering, and bold novel about the impositions of happiness in the quest for love.

The Seven Good Years

2015-06-16 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2015-06-16
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Seven Good Years by : Etgar Keret

Download or read book The Seven Good Years written by Etgar Keret. This book was released on 2015-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life. What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar’s three-year-old son’s impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There’s Lev’s insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar’s siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father’s shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoir—Etgar’s first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style—is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.

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