The Tenants of Moonbloom (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Lewis Wallant
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Early 1960’s
- Setting: New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, New York City, Alienation, Landlords or tenants, Apartment houses, Real estate, Maintenance or repair
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Norman Moonbloom, a thirty-three-year-old Jew who manages four small, deteriorating tenement buildings owned by his brother. Norman feels like a failure. A kindly, introverted, studious type, he is not cut out to be a businessman but was never comfortable as a student. During fourteen years at the University of Wisconsin, McGill University, the University of Mexico, and Bowdoin College, he tried accounting, art, literature, dentistry, rabbinical studies, and podiatry before becoming his brother’s overworked, underpaid agent. Every week, Norman goes around...
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