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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?

The Tenants

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The last remaining tenant in a condemned New York tenement, Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 05/08/1999
    ISBN13: 9780099289876, 978-0099289876
    ISBN10: 0099289873

    Number of Pages: 160

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    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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