The Tenants

Author : Katrine Engberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982127597
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenant written by Katrine Engberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as a Most Anticipated title by People, Parade, Bustle, CrimeReads, She Reads, and more! An electrifying work of literary suspense from internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg, The Tenant—heralded as a “stunning debut” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs—follows two Copenhagen police detectives struggling to solve a shocking murder and stop a killer hell-bent on revenge. When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who’s a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a budding novelist—and when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the still-unfinished mystery she’s writing, the link between fiction and real life grows both more urgent and more dangerous. But Esther’s role in this twisted scenario is not quite as clear as it first seems. Is she the culprit or just another victim, trapped in a twisted game of vengeance? Anette and Jeppe must dig more deeply into the two women’s pasts to discover the identity of the brutal puppet-master pulling the strings. Evocative and original, The Tenant promises “dark family secrets—and a smorgasbord of surprises” (People).

Author : Edward Lewis Wallant
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170700
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenants of Moonbloom written by Edward Lewis Wallant and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters, among them a gay jazz musician with a sideline as a gigolo, a Holocaust survivor, and a brilliant young black writer modeled on James Baldwin. Moonbloom hears their cries of outrage and abuse; he learns about their secret sorrows and desires. And as he grows familiar with their stories, he finds that he is drawn, in spite of his best judgment, into a desperate attempt to improve their lives. Edward Lewis Wallant's astonishing comic tour de force is a neglected masterpiece of 1960s America.

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804971
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenants written by Bernard Malamud and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Russell Leigh Sharman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520939549
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenants of East Harlem written by Russell Leigh Sharman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, The Tenants of East Harlem is an absorbing and unconventional biography of a neighborhood told through the life stories of seven residents whose experiences there span nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic distinctions that divide the community, the book portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one of the last Italian holdouts; José, a Puerto Rican; and Lucille, an African American. Side by side with these representatives of a century of ethnic succession are the newcomers: Maria, an undocumented Mexican; Mohamed, a West African entrepreneur; Si Zhi, a Chinese immigrant and landlord; and, finally, the author himself, a reluctant beneficiary of urban renewal. Russell Leigh Sharman deftly weaves these oral histories together with fine-grained ethnographic observations and urban history to examine the ways that immigration, housing, ethnic change, gentrification, race, class, and gender have affected the neighborhood over time. Providing unique access to the nuances of inner-city life, The Tenants of East Harlem shows how roots sink so quickly in a community that has always hosted the transient, how new immigrants are challenging the claims of the old, and how that cycle is threatened as never before by the specter of gentrification.

Author : Roberta Gold
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252095987
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Tenants Claimed the City written by Roberta Gold and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly-dominant ideal of homeownership in racially segregated suburbs. They insisted that renters as well as owners had rights to stable, well-maintained homes, and they proposed that racially diverse urban communities held a right to remain in place--a right that outweighed owners' rights to raise rents, redevelop properties, or exclude tenants of color. Further, the activists asserted that women could participate fully in the political arenas where these matters were decided. Grounded in archival research and oral history, When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing shows that New York City's tenant movement made a significant claim to citizenship rights that came to accrue, both ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America. Roberta Gold emphasizes the centrality of housing to the racial and class reorganization of the city after the war; the prominent role of women within the tenant movement; and their fostering of a concept of "community rights" grounded in their experience of living together in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods.

Author : Roland Topor
Publisher : Centipede Press
ISBN 13 : 9781933618067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenant written by Roland Topor and published by Centipede Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topor's nightmare vision of paranoia with a new introduction by famed horror writer Thomas Ligotti.

Author : Edward Lewis Wallant
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373041
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenants of Moonbloom written by Edward Lewis Wallant and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters, among them a gay jazz musician with a sideline as a gigolo, a Holocaust survivor, and a brilliant young black writer modeled on James Baldwin. Moonbloom hears their cries of outrage and abuse; he learns about their secret sorrows and desires. And as he grows familiar with their stories, he finds that he is drawn, in spite of his best judgment, into a desperate attempt to improve their lives. Edward Lewis Wallant's astonishing comic tour de force is a neglected masterpiece of 1960s America.

Author : Tinker's End
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenants at Tinker's End. A Tale. [Illustrated.] written by Tinker's End and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Le Fanu J.S.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5521074511
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenants of Malory II written by Le Fanu J.S. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “The Tenants of Malory” is the sensation novel about two feuding families, Verney and Fanshawe, and their ambiguous relationship. Arthur, Lord Verney’s nephew, cannot choose between his feelings to Margaret Fanshawe and for his benefi t. Through this novel, the author asks a question – how many moral principles is a person willing to sacrifi ce for a brief sense of superiority?

Author : Simon Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199589194
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant written by Simon Garner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its sixth edition, A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant continues to provide a comprehensive and systematic guide to the principles and practice of landlord and tenant law. Containing coverage of up to date cases, as well as key documents, this book provides a valuable introduction for students and professionals alike.