The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
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
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Play It as It Lays
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Sophie's World
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Everything that Rises Must Converge
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Wise Blood
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The Autobiography of My Mother
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The Moviegoer
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The Violent Bear It Away
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
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Fierce Attachments
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The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue
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The Natural
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The White Goddess
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Cancer Ward
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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The Collected Stories
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Hunger
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
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The Kingdom of This World
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The Complete Stories
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Kathleen and Frank
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To the Finland Station
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Danube
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Selected Verse
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Sylvia
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
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Wise Children
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The Golden Ass
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The Towers of Trebizond
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Epitaph of a Small Winner
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Prater Violet
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77 Dream Songs
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On Grief and Reason
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Stories and Prose Poems
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The Family Moskat
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The World in the Evening
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Geography III
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Field Work
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Watermark
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On Poetry and Poets
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The Men's Club
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Down There on a Visit
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The Dead Father
Bernard Malamud (1914-86) was a novelist who received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Fixer, as well as the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel. He was born in Brooklyn and spent many years teaching at Bennington College in Vermont.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780374504847 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374504849 |
| Title | The Assistant |
| Author | Bernard Malamud |
| Series | Fsg Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Year published | 2003-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 246 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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