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The Assistant

By Bernard Malamud

The Assistant Contemporary literature

The Assistant

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The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store. Like Malamud's best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and great expectations. Malamud defined the immigrant experience in a way that has proven vital for several generations of writers. "His best novel . . . The Assistant is as tightly written as a prose poem." --Morris Dickstein in Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction 1945-1970
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
246
Release Date:
1957-06-01
Publication Date:
2003-07-07
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0374504849
ISBN13:
9780374504847
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
231 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
22 cm

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