LoginThe Assistant (Perennial Classics)
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To be poor is bad enough.
To be a poor Jew is a crime.
When Frankie Alpine turns up at the Bober's grocery store, he is drawn into their struggle to survive in competition with the expanding supermarket trade. In this prison world matters become tragically complicated, as Frankie, a Gentile, begins to desire Helen, the grocer's daughter.
In The Assistant, Malamud magnificently explores a recurring theme of his novels - man's longing to salvage a new life from the wreckage of the old - and once again affirms his posiition among the most powerful writers on the American literary scene.
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Manufacturer: Perennial (HarperCollins)
Release date: 31 October 2000
ISBN-10 : 0060958308 |
Release date: 31 October 2000
ISBN-10 : 0060958308 |
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