- Criminals, Fiction, Grocers, Italian Americans
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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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Bernard Malamud
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 246
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Avon
- Editions
- 74
- Language
- English, Japanese, German, heb
- ISBN
- 9780140185089
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Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel *The Natural* was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel *The Fixer* (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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