The Tenants of Moonbloom (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Lewis Wallant
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Humorous psychological realism
- Time of Work: Early 1960’s
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Norman Moonbloom, Irwin Moonbloom, Gaylord Knight, Bodien, Eva, Minna, Lester Bailey, Arnold, Betty Jacoby, Marvin Schoenbrun, Stanley Katz, Sidone, Sherman, Carol Hauser, Aaron, Sarah Lublin, Basellecci, Jerry Wung, Beeler, Sheryl, Kram, Wade Johnson, Leni Cass, J. T., Milly Leopold, Ilse Moeller, Karloff, Sugarman, Joe Paxton, Del Rio, Louie, Jim, Jane Sprague
- 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
Published posthumously (Wallant died of an aneurysm in December, 1962, leaving this and another novel in manuscript), THE TENANTS OF MOONBLOOM is a profoundly humorous novel centering its focus on an awakening that exhibits the intensities and accents of a religious conversion to human dignity without ever departing from the secular indignities of the human condition. The acerbities of its plot, the grotesquerie of its characterizations, and the slyness of its humor are the marks of Edward Lewis Wallant’s special talent, one removed from the current fashionable modes...
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