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
Malamud, Bernard: - Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Fixer, and the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel, a book of stories. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780380514748 |
| ISBN 10 | 0380514745 |
| Title | The Assistant |
| Author | Bernard Malamud |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 1980-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 297 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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