The Tenants of Moonbloom

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Dave Eggers

▪Edward Lewis Wallant

Verlag:

New York Review of Books

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: QV7GP22

EAN: 9781590170700

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 21.07.2026

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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.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Dave Eggers
Edward Lewis Wallant

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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