{"product_id":"9781590170700","title":"The Tenants of Moonbloom","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Lewis Wallant's astonishing comic tour de force is a neglected masterpiece of 1960s America.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43674197196861,"sku":"9781590170700","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781590170700_p0.jpg?v=1790077490","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781590170700","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}