The tenants
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"The sole tenant in a run-down tenement, Harry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves in to the building. Harry and Willie are artistic rivals and unwilling neighbors, and their uneasy peace is disturbed by the presence of Willie's white girlfriend, Irene, and the landlord Levenspiel's attempts to evict both men and demolish the building. This novel's conflict, current then, is perennial now: it reveals the slippery nature of the human condition, and the human capacity for violence and undoing."--Jacket.
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Malamud, B. (2003). The tenants. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Malamud, Bernard. 2003. The Tenants. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Malamud, Bernard, The Tenants. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
MLA Citation (style guide)Malamud, Bernard. The Tenants. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
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