The Assistant BOTY_2025 Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

”—Sunday Express

lifelong bond

Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic

giving you the tools to intentionally commit to taking on your life

The Assistant BOTY_2025 Glen Canyon National Recreation AreaThe Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to