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The tenants / Bernard Malamud.
LIBRA - Special PS3563.A4 T4 1971b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malamud, Bernard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Relations with Jews--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- African American men--Fiction.
- African American men.
- Eviction.
- African Americans--Relations with Jews.
- Landlord and tenant--Fiction.
- Landlord and tenant.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Tenement houses--Fiction.
- Tenement houses.
- Jewish men--Fiction.
- Jewish men.
- Eviction--Fiction.
- Authors--Fiction.
- Authors.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Jewish fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected Proof.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Notes:
- "First printing, 1971"--Title page verso.
- OCLC:
- 904782320
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