num_pages: 297
description: A penniless Italian-American man with a violent history and a bad conscience drifts into the world of a hard-pressed Jewish grocer in Brooklyn and falls in love with his frustrated daughter, who convinces him to change his life. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Assistant
titlecomplete: The Assistant
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Americana, Jewish, Fiction, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 10497
places: New York (State), Brooklyn, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: National Jewish Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, awardedAt: -378662400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Avon Books