The Assistant - (FSG Classics) by Bernard Malamud (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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. Like Malamud's best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and great expectations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>The Assistant</i>, 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. <p/>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. <p/>His best novel . . . <i>The Assistant</i> is as tightly written as a prose poem. --Morris Dickstein in <i>Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction 1945-1970</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"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." --<i>William Goyen, The New York Times</i> <p/>Perfect ... A lyric marvel. --<i> The Nation</i> <p/>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. -- <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Bernard Malamud</b> (1914-86) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for<i> The Fixer</i>, and the National Book Award for <i>The Magic Barrel</i>. Born in Brooklyn, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont.
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