Los inquilinos de Moonbloom
By: Wallant, Edward Lewis [author.].
Contributor(s): Fresán, Rodrigo [contributor agent of text.] | Martínez-Lage, Miguel [translator.].
Material type:
BookSeries: Libros del Asteroide: 4.Publisher: Barcelona, España Libros del Asteroide S.L.U. [2012]Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9788415625148; 8415625146.Uniform titles: Tenants of Moombloom. Spanish (Martínez-Lage) Subject(s): Landlord and tenant -- Fiction | Apartment houses -- Fiction | Sibling rivalry -- Fiction | Brothers -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Electronic books.DDC classification: 813.54 Online resources: Disponible en Digitalia Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
e-book
|
e-books Acceso a copias ilimitadas a través de Digitalia | Colección e-books | Available |
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.
Online resource; title from ePub title page (Digitalia, viewed July 3, 2018)