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Bernard Malamud

The Assistant

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Time magazine's 'All-Time list of 100 Novels'
Frank Alpine, a drifter fleeing from his past, runs straight into struggling Brooklyn grocer Morris Bober. Seeing a chance to atone for past sins, Frank becomes Bober's assistant and keeps shop when the owner takes ill. But it is Bober's daughter, Helen, who gives Frank a real reason to stay around, even as he begins to steal from the store.
Widely considered as one of the great American-Jewish novels, The Assistant is a classic look at the social and racial divides of a country still in its infancy, and a stunning evocation of the immigrant experience — of cramped circumstances and great expectations.
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274 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
Publisher
Atlantic Books

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    At that moment Frank came out of the back with Helen. Though the clerk spoke a musical Italian, Morris recognized a dirty word. He struck his assistant across the face and they wrestied furiously on the floor, Helen screaming mutely.
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    • nnicholson16has quoted8 years ago
      As for what he would do with Frank, after long pondering the situation, thinking how the clerk had acted concerning their increase in business – as if he alone had created their better times – Morris at length decided that Frank had not – as he had assumed when Karp told him the news – tried to trick him into believing that he was responsible for the store’s change for the better. The grocer supposed that the clerk, like himself, was probably ignorant of the true reason for their change of luck.
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      • nnicholson16has quoted8 years ago
        It was a medium-sized box of some sort with something heavy in it
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