The Assistant - Couverture souple

Malamud, Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374504849 ISBN 13 : 9780374504847

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1957

Synopsis

The Assistant, 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.

"His best novel . . . The Assistant is as tightly written as a prose poem." --Morris Dickstein in Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction 1945-1970

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Bernard Malamud (1914-86) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for The Fixer, and the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel. Born in Brooklyn, he taught for many years at Bennington College in Vermont.

Jonathan Rosen is the author of The Talmud and the Internet and the novels Eve's Apple and Joy Comes in the Morning. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is the editorial director of Nextbook.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 1957
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374504849
• ISBN 13: 9780374504847
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
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• Personne responsable: non disponible