| Author: |
|
Bernard Malamud
|
| Title: |
 |
The Assistant |
| Moochable copies: |
|
No copies available |
| Topics: |
|
| Binding: |
|
Paperback |
| Pages: |
|
0 |
| Date: |
|
1991-1 |
| ISBN: |
|
BM1364152390830256588 |
| Publisher: |
|
Wolters Noordhoff Black Birds serie |
|
|
|
| Description: |
|
The Assistant 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 Tsarist Russia 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 grocer's assistant, and the grocer's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with her father's assistant despite parental objections and misgivings of her own. |
| URL: |
|
http://bookmooch.com/BM1364152390830256588 |
|
|
