The assistant

Description:

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.

subjects: Criminals,  Fiction,  Grocers,  Italian Americans,  Jewish converts from Christianity,  Jewish families,  New York,  New York (State),  Psychological fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction in English,  Cliffs notes,  Jews,  Malamud, bernard, 1914-1986,  American literature,  Jewish authors,  Translations into Russian

People: Bernard Malamud (1914-)

Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.),  Russia

Times: The Depression 1920s