Wallant, Edward Lewis, 1926-1962,

Los inquilinos de Moonbloom / Edward Lewis Wallant ; prólogo de Rodrigo Fresán ; traducción de Miguel Martínez-Lage. - 1 online resource. - Libros del Asteroide . - Libros del Asteroide ; 4. .

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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Landlord and tenant--Fiction.
Apartment houses--Fiction.
Sibling rivalry--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.


Psychological fiction.
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