Word: moonbloom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tenants of Moonbloom, by Edward Lewis Wallant. A horrifying look behind the doors of New York's wretched slum tenements. The novel's hero is a rent collector who goes bleakly from house to house until he can no longer stand it, and sets out to restore the buildings and his own spirit...
...Tenants of Moonbloom, by Edward Lewis Wallant. A horrifying look behind the doors of New York's wretched slum tenements. The novel's hero is a rent collector who goes bleakly from house to house until he can no longer stand it, and sets out to restore the buildings and his own spirit...
Edward Lewis Wallant died of a stroke last year at 36, bequeathing a truly horrifying human map of Manhattan's lower depths. His third novel, The Tenants of Moonbloom, is a chart of misery in the tenements, and his hero (surely the first of his kind in the long history of fiction) is a rent collector...
Shared Burden. Norman Moonbloom is "New York's most educated rent collector," with degrees from Wisconsin, McGill, Mexico and Bowdoin. His heart, if anywhere, is in his boots as he trudges each week through the Lower East Side and Yorkville to collect rent in cash and to issue promises that some thing (the toilet, the walls, the fusebox, or whatever) will be fixed. It never...
Heaving at the handle of an ashcan, his aide Gaylord, a Negro janitor, asks: "What do you know of the black man's burden?" Moonbloom responds sourly, as he picks up the other handle: "I share...