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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374504849

ISBN-139780374504847

eBay Product ID (ePID)1177216

Product Key Features

Book TitleAssistant : a Novel

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicLiterary

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorBernard Malamud

Book SeriesFsg Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.1 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-104943

Reviews"The clarity and concreteness of [Malamud's] style, the warm humanity over his people, the tender wit that keeps them first and compassionable, will delight many.... Mr. Malamud's people are memorable and real as rock." --William Goyen , The New York Times, "The clarity and concreteness of [Malamud's] style, the warm humanity over his people, the tender wit that keeps them first and compassionable, will delight many.... Mr. Malamud's people are memorable and real as rock." -- William Goyen, The New York Times "Perfect ... A lyric marvel." -- The Nation "There is a binding theme throughout the book, a search for fundamental truths through the study of ordinary people, their everyday ups and downs, their mundane pleasures and pains ... Malamud's vision, style and world are distinctively original." -- San Francisco Chronicle, "The clarity and concreteness of [Malamud's] style, the warm humanity over his people, the tender wit that keeps them first and compassionable, will delight many.... Mr. Malamud's people are memorable and real as rock." -- William Goyen, The New York Times, The clarity and concreteness of [Malamud's] style, the warm humanity over his people, the tender wit that keeps them first and compassionable, will delight many.... Mr. Malamud's people are memorable and real as rock.

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisThe 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

LC Classification NumberPS3563.A4A8 2003