{"product_id":"assistant-book-bernard-malamud-9780380514748","title":"The Assistant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Assistant\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis best novel . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Assistant\u003c\/i\u003e is as tightly written as a prose poem. --Morris Dickstein in \u003ci\u003eLeopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction 1945-1970\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50059222876433,"sku":"CIN0380514745G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350796538129,"sku":"CIN0380514745A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0380514745.jpg?v=1750845962","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/assistant-book-bernard-malamud-9780380514748","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}