The Assistant (Perennial Classics)
Publisher: Perennial
Publication year: 2000
ISBN: 0060958308
Description:
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.
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