The Tenants of Moonbloom | The Tenants of Moonbloom

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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

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...

The Tenants of Moonbloom | The Tenants of Moonbloom

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