Moonglow: A Novel 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 terminall
| Title | : | Moonglow: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (740 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062225553 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-22 |
| Genre | : |
Editorial : “His most beautifully realized novel to date . a masterful and resounding novel of the dark and blazing forces that forged our tumultuous, confounding, and precious world.” (Booklist, starred review)
“Luminous. The story builds to core revelations of wartime horror and postwar heartbreak as powerful as they come.” (Library Journal, starred review)
“Charming and elegantly structured. What seduces the reader is Chabon’s language, which reinvents the world, joyously, on almost every page.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Moonglow blurs the line between autobiography and fiction in interesting ways, and manages to feel more artful than most memoirs and more true than most novels.” (Bookish)
“An amazingly rich, emotionally detailed story….Chabon’s people become so real to us, their problems so palpably netted in the author’s buoyant, expressionis
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 de
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