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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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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2003
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- Titel
- The Tenants of Moonbloom
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Edward Lewis Wallant
- Verlag
- NYRB Classics
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2003
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 264
- ISBN10
- 1590170709
- ISBN13
- 9781590170700
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Klassiker, USA, Amerikanische Literatur, New York, Armut, Brüder, Manhattan, NY, Unterkunft
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1963
- Originaltitel
- The Tenants of Moonbloom
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.