The Assistant (FSG Classics) - Softcover

Malamud, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374504849 ISBN 13: 9780374504847

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1957

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Book by Malamud Bernard

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"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." --William Goyen, The New York Times

"Perfect ... A lyric marvel." -- The Nation

"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." -- San Francisco Chronicle

Reseña del editor:

Introduction by Jonathan Rosen

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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• Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1957
• ISBN 10: 0374504849
• ISBN 13: 9780374504847
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246