Word: wallant
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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...
...TENANTS OF MOONBLOOM by Edward Lewis Wallant. 245 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
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...
...Wallant's people are the walking wounded and unofficial dead of the affluent society. They inhabit what is known in officialese as "substandard housing," but they are figures in a land scape of hell. Wallant writes with lyrical affection of falling plaster, the colors of linoleum, the awful caprice of electrical fixtures, and the ebb and flow of cruel plumbing. He sniffs the eternal odors of poverty, sin and despair on stairway, landing and daybed. The flaking walls about his creatures are a barometer of the damp weather in the soul. His theme is the pursuit of grace among...