The Tenants of Moonbloom (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Wallant, Edward Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590170709 ISBN 13: 9781590170700

Verlag: NYRB Classics, 2003

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Book by Wallant Edward Lewis

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"...a remarkable tour de force in which this gifted writer takes the elements of several "Street Scenes," and spins them faster and faster like a deranged merry--go--round." --Martin Levin, New York Times Book Review

"No one since Nathanael West has written better of the rootlessness of metropolitan life. West is a writer whom Wallant resembles not only in his untimely death after early brilliant promise, but for his special Jewish sensibility and...profound moral concern..." --Time

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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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• Verlag: NYRB Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1590170709
• ISBN 13: 9781590170700
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264