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Harper
December 2016
On Sale: November 22, 2016
448 pages
ISBN: 0062225553
EAN: 9780062225559
Kindle: B015CXDLNW
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Literature and Fiction Literary
Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling
novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a
novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential
adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The
Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his
mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his
terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful
painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death,
Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories
the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and
pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That
dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel
Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer
Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the
narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of
madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and
desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the
shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American
technological accomplishment at mid-century, and, above all,
of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping
secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult
but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and
his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience
growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of
speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and
reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the
invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to
the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, from the
heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American
Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single
life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that
tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an
autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir,
Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.
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