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The Tenants of Moonbloom
The Tenants of Moonbloom | Edward Lewis Wallant
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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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Mehso-so

Not bad but very hard to keep reading for some reason. It's only 150 pages.

NYC tenants and Moonbloom the rent collector (left on the photo). I think its that type of comedy-tragedy I fail to get the humor from because I fixate on the tragedy part too much.

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Once he had read Wuthering Heights over a weekend and gone to school susceptible to any heroine, only to have the girl who sat in front of him, whom he had admired for some months, emit a loud fart which had murdered him in a small way and kept him from speaking a word to anyone the whole week following.

Laura317 I can‘t decide if this is funny or tragic! 😂 4y
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