# The Assistant

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- Book: [The Assistant](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-malamud/the-assistant) ([The Assistant.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-malamud/the-assistant.md))
- Authors: [Bernard Malamud](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-malamud)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-08-5789-097-9
- Published: 2014-04-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Time magazine’s ‘All-Time list of 100 Novels’ Frank Alpine, a drifter fleeing from his past, runs straight into struggling Brooklyn grocer Morris Bober. Seeing a chance to atone for past sins, Frank becomes Bober’s assistant and keeps shop when the owner takes ill. But it is Bober’s daughter, Helen, who gives Frank a real reason to stay around, even as he begins to steal from the store. Widely considered as one of the great American-Jewish novels, The Assistant is a classic look at the social and racial divides of a country still in its infancy, and a stunning evocation of the immigrant experience – of cramped circumstances and great expectations.