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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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- Année de publication
- 2003
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- Titre
- The Tenants of Moonbloom
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Edward Lewis Wallant
- Éditeur
- NYRB Classics
- Publié
- 2003
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN10
- 1590170709
- ISBN13
- 9781590170700
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Classiques, États-Unis, Littérature américaine, New York, Pauvreté, Frères, Manhattan, NY, Hébergement
- Première publication
- 1963
- Titre original
- The Tenants of Moonbloom
- Évaluation
- 3,95 sur 5
- 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.