"There were times when he imagined himself, instead, telling it all to Helen. He wanted to do something that would open her eyes to his true self, but who could be a hero in a grocery store?" "Malamud takes a familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality . . . (he) brings to his story of the poor not only pity without sentimentality and realism without bad taste; he gives their humblest acts a kind of foreboding excitement that can only spring from a conviction that they--the poor ...
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"There were times when he imagined himself, instead, telling it all to Helen. He wanted to do something that would open her eyes to his true self, but who could be a hero in a grocery store?" "Malamud takes a familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality . . . (he) brings to his story of the poor not only pity without sentimentality and realism without bad taste; he gives their humblest acts a kind of foreboding excitement that can only spring from a conviction that they--the poor and the meek--will inherit the earth".--"Time".
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I enjoyed this book because of interesting situations that occurred in a store in the 1950's. The characters were believable and there was an interesting love triangle.