The Tenants of Moonbloom

Zusatztext "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 merrygoround." 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 andprofound moral concern" Time Informationen zum Autor Edward Lewis Wallant; Introduction by Dave Eggers Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...

Autorentext
Edward Lewis Wallant; Introduction by Dave Eggers

Klappentext
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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