Books with title The children at the gate

Before Edward Lewis Wallant's death of an aneurysm at 36, he published two novels - The Human Season and The Pawnbroker - while two others, The Tenants of Moonbloom and The Children at the Gate, were released posthumously.In the short time he was writing - about three years wherein he considered himself and was considered a serious writer - he was counted as part of a brilliant group of postwar Jewish American writers - Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth among them. The Children at the Gate concerns the patients at a troubled New York City hospital. It is full of weird, explosive characters. The story is intense, and troubling, and full of dark contradictions.