The tenants, Bernard Malamud
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Label
The tenants, Bernard Malamud
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The tenants
Oclc number
175868
Responsibility statement
Bernard Malamud
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
Creator
Subject
- Landlord and tenant -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Authors
- Fiction
- Authors -- Fiction
- New York (State) + New York
- Tenement houses
- African American men -- Fiction
- Tenement houses -- Fiction
- Jewish men
- Jewish men -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Landlord and tenant
- African Americans + Relations with Jews
- African American men
- Eviction
- Eviction -- Fiction
- Jewish fiction
- African Americans + Relations with Jews -- Fiction
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- Classification4
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject19
- Landlord and tenant -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Authors
- Fiction
- Authors -- Fiction
- New York (State) + New York
- Tenement houses
- African American men -- Fiction
- Tenement houses -- Fiction
- Jewish men
- Jewish men -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Landlord and tenant
- African Americans + Relations with Jews
- African American men
- Eviction
- Eviction -- Fiction
- Jewish fiction
- African Americans + Relations with Jews -- Fiction
- Content1
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