Description: The Tenants by Bernard Malamud 1971 HC/DJ 1st/1st Very Good Condition The dust jacket has some shelf wear, yellowing to the white sections, it is price-clipped, and creasing on the flaps. The binding is tight, secure, square with bright orange boards. There is minimal fading to the top and bottom edges. The pages are bright and clean. About the book: With a new introduction by Aleksandar Hemon In "The Tenants" (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenement, Henry 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 into the building. Henry 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.
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Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Type: Novel
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Tenants
Author: Bernard Malamud
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Literary
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year: 1971
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 345.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 230 Pages