Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
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Considered as Bernard Malamud's masterpiece, THE ASSISTANT tells the story of the complicated relationship between Morris Bober, a goodhearted immigrant shopkeeper in The Bronx, and Frank Alpine, an Italian-American drifter who begins to work in Bober's shop for free--while secretly trying to atone for the time he was an accomplice in robbing the store. Issues of race, class, sin, and repentance are handled with sublime skill in this novel, hailed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 greatest novels from 1923 to 2005.
Editions of Assistant
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Publisher Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc |
Date 1999 |
Price None Available |
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Publisher Ferdinand Schoningh |
Date 1982 |
Price $10.00 |
 G+ |
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Publisher Wolters-Noordhoff |
Date 1991 |
Price None Available |
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Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 1991 |
Price $1.00 |
Very Good |
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Publisher Oxford University Press |
Date 1981 |
Price None Available |
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Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Date 1957 |
Price $3.78 |
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Publisher Bt Bound |
Date 2003 |
Price None Available |
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Binding/Format Audio Cassette |
Publisher Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc |
Date 2002 |
Price None Available |
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Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 2000 |
Price $1.00 |
Used - Good |
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Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 1993 |
Price $1.00 |
Good |
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Publisher Thorndike Pr |
Date 1998 |
Price None Available |
Publisher Notes
A struggling neighborhood Jewish grocer takes on a helper who falls in love with his daughter and steals from his store.
Media Reviews
"In the lives of the persons moving through this novel there is nothing tragic, or heroic or even impressively dramatic. Yet every person presented is made remarkably real. For this reason--because of its very fidelity--the storytelling...is alive and moving."
First Line
The early November street was dark though night had ended, but the wind, to the grocer's surprise, already clawed. It flung his apron into his face as he bent for the two milk cases at the curb. Morris Bober dragged the heavy boxes to the door, panting.
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