{"product_id":"the-assistant-a-novel","title":"The Assistant","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67921874583776,"sku":"9780374504847","price":3450.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9780374504847.jpg?v=1791969218","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/ja\/products\/the-assistant-a-novel","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}