The assistant

Bernard Malamud

Original title: The Assistant

first published 1957 Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2007

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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.

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Editions we hold

Assistant edition · 2014 · Atlantic Books, Limited · 300 pages · 9781782393542
Assistant (SparkNotes Literature Guide) edition · 2014 · Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. · 9781411474017
Assistant (SparkNotes Literature Guide) edition · 2007 · Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. · 9781411492493
Assistant edition · 2003 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781466805002
The assistant edition · 2003 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 246 pages · 9780374504847
Assistant edition · 2000 · Penguin Random House · 9780099273202
The Assistant (Perennial Classics) paperback · 2000 · Perennial (HarperCollins) · 256 pages · 9780060958305
The assistant edition · 1998 · G.K. Hall · 337 pages
The assistant edition · 1993 · Avon Books · 297 pages
The Assistant edition · 1992 · Penguin · 217 pages
The assistant edition · 1991 · Wolters-Noordhoff · 226 pages
De bediende edition · 1988 · Meulenhoff · 280 pages

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