| The Tenants of Moonbloom Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wallant, Edward Lewis (Author), Eggers, Dave (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590170709 ISBN-13: 9781590170700 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Urban - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003021771 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.04" W x 7.96" (0.55 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |