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The Assistant

✍ Scribed by Malamud, Bernard

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
1957
Tongue
English
Weight
149 KB
Edition
2
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1466805005

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✦ Synopsis

{ Oct 2020 - epub revisions. Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. }
ebook, 264 pages
Published 1957
FSG eBook (2011)
National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1958)
Anthony Burgess- Best in English (1939-1983)
Book Riot's 100 Modern Classics (1950-1997)
Time's List of the 100 Best Novels
Introduction by: Jonathan Rosen

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.

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