The assistant

Summary: "There were times when he imagined himself, instead, telling it all to Helen. He wanted to do something that would open her eyes to his true self, but who could be a hero in a grocery store?" "Malamud takes a familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality . . . (he) brings to his story of the poor not only pity without sentimentality and realism without bad taste; he gives their humblest acts a kind of foreboding excitement that can only spring from a conviction that they--the poor and the meek--will inherit the earth".--"Time".

Item details

ISBN: 0380514745
ISBN: 9780380514748
Physical Description: print
297 p. ; 18 cm.
Publisher: New York : Avon, c1957

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Source: Gift of Ann Malamud, Sept. 8, 1993.

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Jewish converts from Christianity Fiction
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction

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Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Jewish fiction.
Love stories.

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