(Fiction, 246 pp. 1957)
Plagued by guilt after taking part in the robbery of a small New York grocery, Italian-American Frank Alpine tries to make good by taking a job helping the struggling shop’s poor Jewish owner. As he works through his moral debt and falls in love with the grocer’s daughter, Frank undergoes a painful struggle to transcend the base instincts that engendered his criminal behavior.
- Discussion Guide from ReformJudaism.org
- Review by William Goyen, New York Times, April 13, 2007
- Review: Kirkus
- Study Guide from SparkNotes.com
- Plot synopsis from Wikipedia
- Critical Essay by Helge Normann Nilson, International Fiction Review, 1988
