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The Tenants

The Tenants

by Bernard Malamud (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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    Paperback 1993

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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?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 05 Aug 1999
ISBN 10: 0099289873
ISBN 13: 9780099289876
Book Overview: First published in 1971, The Tenants is a ruthlessly funny dissection of a relationship of profound unease and mutual destruction.

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
Bernard Malamud, one of America's most important novelists and short-story writers, was born in Brooklyn in 1914. He took his B.A. degree at the City College of New York and his M.A. at Colombia University. From 1940 to 1949 he taught in various New York schools, and then joined the staff of Oregon State University, where he stayed until 1961. Thereafter, he taught at Bennington State College, Vermont. His remarkable, and uncharacteristic first novel, The Natural, appeared in 1952. Malamud received international acclaim with the publication of The Assistant (1957, winner of the Rosenthal Award and the Daroff Memorial Award). His other works include The Magic Barrel (1958, winner of the National Book Award), Idiots First (1963, short stories), The Fixer (1966, winner of a second National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize), Pictures of Fidelman (1969), The Tenants (1971), Rembrandt's Hat (1973, short stories), Dubin's Lives (1979) and God's Grace (1982). Bernard Malamud was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, USA, in 1964, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1967, and won a major Italian award, the Premio Mondello, in 1985. Benard Malamud died in 1986.