Landlord by Kristin Hunter

55 in stock

209mm x 139mm x 19mm

Pages: 272

An elaborate spoof that somehow manages to combine touches of the absurd and intimations of the surreal, strokes of caricature, slapstick, and the grotesque, with an inherent down-to-earth sanity and realism. GÇö Saturday Review

A wealthy white man and earnest do-gooder buys a building in a ghetto neighborhood in this warmly comic novel. Elgar Enders, having been expelled from eight Ivy League schools, is eager to make something of himself. He begins by attempting to improve his new property, an endeavor that plunges him into a world of cheerful amorality. Elgars tenants GÇö an uninhibited hairdresser and her militant husband, a refined grifter, and a former jazz singer who practices voodoo GÇö gleefully proceed to take advantage of his naivety. But the fledgling landlord receives something of value in return in this satirical look at issues of gentrification, race, class, and privilege. Called rather readable by Andrew Sarris in The New York Times, this acclaimed novel was the basis for Hal Ashbys 1970 film of the same name.