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Original Title:	The Assistant
ISBN:	0374504849 (ISBN13: 9780374504847)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Brooklyn, New York City, New York(United States) New York State(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Jewish Book Award for Fiction (1958), Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1958), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1958)

The Assistant

Bernard Malamud

Paperback | Pages: 246 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 9236 Users | 469 Reviews

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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.

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Title	:	The Assistant
Author	:	Bernard Malamud
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	July 7th 2003 by Farrar Straus and Giroux (first published 1957)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Jewish. Novels

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Ratings: 3.89 From 9236 Users | 469 Reviews

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There has been a bit of buzz about Malamud lately mostly due to his daughters recently published memoir, My Father Is a Book. Malamud is most often described as the under appreciated, overlooked middle child between the great Jewish-American novelists of the last century, Bellow and Roth. I cant speak to that claim.The Assistant is one of Malamuds most acclaimed books and I have had it on my bookshelf for over a year. I cant really remember why I bought it other than I had heard a bit about the

Ganef Goes Straight, Becomes SchlimazlIn the Pirke Avot, the book of the Talmud in which we find a lot of maxims and sayings, we read that if a servant steals from you, you must forgive him/her. And if the servant steals again, you must forgive again. Morris Bober, a humble, luckless Jew from Russia running a failing grocery shop in New York (a schlimazl in other words), acts out this admonition in Malamuds outstanding novel. He seems to have no faith, does not attend synagogue and there is no

The best Novel I've read in a good long while. It's a really simple story, but it's so well written and well told, it just draws you in. I kept flipping pages because I just wanted to know what happen!The story is very bleck, but I think it makes it better. It's not the nice "Hollywood" ending where everyone is happy and smiling. No, it's the "Real World" ending, where everything doesn't really work out, and you don't really get what you want, you get just enough.

Tired of dragging myself around my small local library for hours, not finding what I wanted to read, I decided to challenge myself by reading a number of the Best 100 books by Time, Modern Library, etc. Some books (ahem, Ulysses - sorry Bloomians, but the man was just showing off) have been torture, but with some it has been like discovering pearls in an oyster. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud is one of those pearls.Summaries I have seen say it is a book about a Jewish grocer in the fifties and

The Assistant, Bernard Malamudhe Assistant (1957) is Bernard Malamud's second novel. Set in a working-class neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, it explores the situation of first- and second-generation Americans in the early 1950s as experienced by three main characters and the relationships between them: an aging Jewish refugee from the Russian Empire who owns and operates a failing small grocery store, a young Italian American drifter trying to overcome a bad start in life by becoming the

The Disciple and the JewWhen Bernard Malamud explained his famous All men are Jews by the following: "I think it is an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later treats all men." He seemed to suggest that Jewishness is not only a question of religion, but some sort of moral norm, that is, a synonym of redemption by suffering that marks mankinds path to maturity.Indeed, The Assistant seems to focus less on cultural and religious differences and more

When I picked this up, I had somehow gotten under the impression that The Assistant won the National Book Award in the 50's. I've only today learned that it was actually Malamud's later novel, The Fixer, that won the award (as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) in 1967. C'est la vie.I wish I could decide how I feel about this novel, which portrays the lives of first and second generation Jewish immigrants in America in the 1950's. I found Malamud's writing style easy to adjust to and