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Title: The Tenants of Moonbloom by Edward Lewis Wallant, Dave Eggers ISBN: 1-59017-070-9 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: lyrical, musical, surprisingly earthy
Comment: Wallant takes a fairly common premise--Norman Moonbloom works as an agent for his brother Irving's tenements, popping into and out of the tenants' lives to collect the rent--and makes it into an effective and moving vision of moral and social dislocation. There are elderly Holocaust survivors, stoned jazzbos, a young married couple, an od married couple, old cranks, a horny young Chinese-American guy, even a James Baldwin character, all of whom seem somehow marooned and desperate for Norman's attentions. Wallant presents each of them with grace and economy, sketching a vision of early-60s NYC that's somehow cheering despite the pervasive despair. By turns lyrical and earthy, this novel is wonderfully thought-provoking as an allegory (is Norman a Christ figure?) and equally enthralling as a minutely-noted tour through a vanished city.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good stuff.
Comment: At least Eggers is good for one thing -- maybe his name stuck to this great book will actually get it in the hands of readers. (Dave, don't you just wish you wrote as well as Wallant?)
Most people can't remember when writers actually wrote good books -- this is one of them. This guy also wrote "The Pawnbroker", another great novel.
Wallant is tough to describe: urban, gritty, but with real imagination and passion and dark humor. He knows a lot about anguish, a lot about being broke and battered spiritually. He's really a modern-day naturalist, like Frank Norris or Stephen Crane (of the shorter works...) or even Dos Passos (of Manhattan Transfer).
Maybe people are really sick of reading crap? Richard Yates's books are coming back (he was buddies with Wallant in the early 60s), now Wallant's...All we need to do now is get Brian Moore's early novels back in print. After you read Wallant, find Moore's "Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" and "An Answer from Limbo."
You won't be disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: An unknown masterpiece
Comment: Readers will not be able to comprehend that something so profoundly written has not been reckognized into mainstream literature. I've never seen so many beautiful, exact and vivid sentences compacted into one work. The story is humorous and emotional, while striking into the heart of universal themes and characterization. Wallant should be considered as great of a writer as Faulkner or Melville.
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Title: The Towers of Trebizond by Rose MacAulay, Jan Morris ISBN: 159017058X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon, Marc Romano, Lawrence G. Blochman, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Goldtree Blochman ISBN: 159017044X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis, Wallant ISBN: 0156714221 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1978 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Gallery (New York Review Books Classics) by John Horne Burns, Paul Fussell ISBN: 1590170806 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Varieties of Exile: Stories by Mavis Gallant, Russell Banks ISBN: 1590170601 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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