SOURCE: Abramson, Edward A. “The Assistant.” In Bernard Malamud Revisited, pp. 25-42. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993.
In the following essay, Abramson discusses major themes and motifs in The Assistant, particularly asceticism and imprisonment, and the contrast between Judaic ethics and American materialism.
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