The Assistant

Name: The Assistant
Author: Bernard Malamud

by Bernard Malamud

Novel of a poor Jewish man's moral redemption through servitude to a grocery store owner

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Bernard Malamud

American novelist and short-story writer whose The Natural and The Fixer are among the great American novels. His work explores Jewish-American experience with moral seriousness and mythic resonance. He was a central figure of postwar American literature.

More by Bernard Malamud

The NaturalNovel about a baseball player's meteoric rise and tragic fall infused with mythic resonance
The FixerNovel following a Jewish handyman falsely imprisoned in Tsarist Russia for a murder
A New LifeNovel about a professor's midlife crisis and failed attempt to reinvent his life in the West
The Magic BarrelStory collection exploring Jewish identity, morality, and redemption in contemporary America
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