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The assistant; a novel.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks PS3563.A4 A8 1957
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malamud, Bernard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grocers.
- Jewish converts from Christianity.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Jewish converts from Christianity--Fiction.
- Italian Americans--Fiction.
- Italian Americans.
- Jewish families--Fiction.
- Jewish families.
- Criminals--Fiction.
- Criminals.
- Grocers--Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Jewish fiction.
- Love stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Scalpone, Frank (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy ©1957.
- Summary:
- Bernard Malamud's second novel is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in post-WWII 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.
- Notes:
- First printing.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 1958
- Other Format:
- Online version: Malamud, Bernard. Assistant.
- ISBN:
- 9780374504847
- 0374504849
- OCLC:
- 734832
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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