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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Assistant
• Author: Bernard Malamud
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780857890979
• ISBN: 0857890972
• ID: 02232005
• Publisher: ATBO
• Weight: 246 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 131 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. April 2014

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