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        The Assistant


        setting

        Brooklyn, New York

        time

        1950s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1957

        page count

        264

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Morris Bober, Frank Alpine, Helen Bober

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        The early November street was dark though night had ended, but the wind, to the grocer's surprise, already clawed. It flung his apron into his face as he bent for the two milk cases at the curb. Morris Bober dragged the heavy boxes to the door, panting. A large brown bag of hard rolls stood in the doorway along with the sour-faced, gray-haired Poilisheh huddled there, who wanted one.

        last lines

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