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?
ISBN: | 9780099289876 |
Publication date: | 5th August 1999 |
Author: | Bernard Malamud |
Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 160 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |