The Tenants
Author: Malamud, Bernard
ISBN: 9780099289876
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Jun 2014
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback / softback
First published in 1971, The Tenants is a ruthlessly funny dissection of a relationship of profound unease and mutual destruction.
The last remaining tenant in a condemned New York tenement, Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he started ten years earlier. Then he stumbles on a black man, sitting typing in one of the deserted flats: Willie Spearmint, soul writer. Touchy, hostile and anti-semitic, demanding then denouncing Lesser's critical help with his floridly violent tales of oppression, Spearmint is exactly what Lesser doesn't need - or does he?
ISBN: 9780099289876
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Jun 2014
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback / softback
First published in 1971, The Tenants is a ruthlessly funny dissection of a relationship of profound unease and mutual destruction.
The last remaining tenant in a condemned New York tenement, Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he started ten years earlier. Then he stumbles on a black man, sitting typing in one of the deserted flats: Willie Spearmint, soul writer. Touchy, hostile and anti-semitic, demanding then denouncing Lesser's critical help with his floridly violent tales of oppression, Spearmint is exactly what Lesser doesn't need - or does he?
