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.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
264 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2003-11-30 |
| ISBN |
9781590170700 |
