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Copyright © 1963 by Joyce Wallant, Executrix of the Estate of Edward Lewis Wallant. Copyright renewed © 1991 by Leslie Wallant, Kim Wallant, and Scott Wallant
Introduction copyright © 2003 by Dave Eggers
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The lines from “The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot on page 43 are from Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., copyright © 1963, 1964 by T. S. Eliot, and are reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd. The lines by Rimbaud on page 44 are from Illuminations, translated by Louise Varèse, copyright 1946, © 1957 by New Directions. The lines by Dylan Thomas on page 45 are from The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright © 1957 by New Directions. Used by permission of New Directions.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wallant, Edward Lewis, 1926-1962.
The tenants of Moonbloom / Edward Lewis Wallant; introduction by Dave Eggers.
p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)
ISBN 1-59017-070-9 (alk. paper)
1. Landlord and tenant—Fiction. 2. Apartment houses—Fiction. 3. Sibling rivalry—Fiction. 4. Brothers—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series.
PS3573.A434T46 2003
813′.54—dc22
2003021771
ISBN 978-1-68137-304-1
v1.0
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