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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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The Tenants of Moonbloom, Edward Lewis Wallant
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- Publicado en
- 2003
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- Título
- The Tenants of Moonbloom
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Edward Lewis Wallant
- Editorial
- NYRB Classics
- Publicado en
- 2003
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 264
- ISBN10
- 1590170709
- ISBN13
- 9781590170700
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Clásicos, EE.UU., Literatura americana, Nueva York, Pobreza, Hermanos, Manhattan, NY, Alojamiento
- Primera publicación
- 1963
- Título original
- The Tenants of Moonbloom
- Calificación
- 3,95 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.