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The Tenants of Moonbloom New York Review Books Classics
by Wallant, Edward Lewis
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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.
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- NYRB Classics Brand
- Nov 30, 2003 Pub Date:
- 9781590170700 ISBN-13:
- 1590170709 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 8.1 in * 0.7 in * 5 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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