num_pages: 176
description: The last remaining tenant in a condemned New York tenement, Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he had started 10 years earlier, while his landlord cajoles through closed doors with hard-luck tales and cash sums.
language: English
title: The Tenants
titlecomplete: The Tenants (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
characters: Willie Spearmint, Harry Lesser
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Americana, Jewish, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Race
ratings_count: 1055
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York
publisher: Penguin Classics