Book 1981
The assistant
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Criminals
- Fiction
- Grocers
- Italian Americans
- Jewish families
- New York
- New York (State)
- Psychological fiction
Morrris is an aging Jewish grocer who lives above the shop. He takes on Frank as an assistant. Frank is not Jewish and falls in love with his daughter, Helen. A very compelling book.