The Assistant

Bernard Malamud First published 1957

About this book

Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italo-American works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood. He develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.

Subjects

  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • american literature
  • cliffs notes
  • criminals
  • fiction
  • fiction in english
  • grocers
  • italian americans
  • jewish authors
  • jewish converts from christianity
  • jewish families
  • jews
  • large type books
  • malamud, bernard, 1914-1986
  • new york
  • new york (n.y.), fiction
  • new york (state)
  • psychological fiction
  • translations into russian