The Tenants (A FIRST PRINTING)

Malamud, Bernard

ISBN 10: 0413449009 / ISBN 13: 9780413449009

Published by EYRE METHUEN,UK, 1972

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tenants (A FIRST PRINTING)
• Publisher: EYRE METHUEN,UK
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413449009
• ISBN 13: 9780413449009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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?

Review

"Wise, funny and fluent" (Paul Theroux)

"In Malamud we may indeed salute a new American writer of power and originality. He has a wonderful sense of character and atmosphere" (Daily Telegraph)

"One of the best writers in the English language-His work embeds itself in one's consciousness and refuses to be dislodged" (Sunday Times)