{"product_id":"the-tenants-by-bernard-malamud-9780099289876","title":"The Tenants","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1971, \u003cem\u003eThe Tenants\u003c\/em\u003e is a ruthlessly funny dissection of a relationship of profound unease and mutual destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48228602413292,"sku":"9780099289876","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780099289876-the-tenants-1.jpg?v=1787606513","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-tenants-by-bernard-malamud-9780099289876","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}