The Magic Barrel

Resumen

The Magic Barrel is a collection of thirteen short stories written by Bernard Malamud and published in 1958 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.
The 13 stories included in The Magic Barrel appear in the following sequence:
"The First Seven Years"
"The Mourners]"
"The Girl of My Dreams"
"Angel Levine"
"Behold the Key"
"Take Pity"
"The Prison"
"The Lady of the Lake"
"A Summer's Reading"
"The Bill"
"The Last Mohican"
"The Loan"
"The Magic Barrel"