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Moonglow (Paperback, Epub Edition)
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Moonglow (Paperback, Epub Edition)
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List price R337
Loot Price R299
Discovery Miles 2 990
You Save R38 (11%)
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Telegraph Book of the Year * A New
York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Book of the
Year * A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year * A Slate Book of the
Year 'Probably Chabon's greatest, a piece of sustained writing that
will be hard to see outdone in 2017' The Times 'Entirely sure
footed, propulsive, the work of a master at his very best. The
brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form
itself, a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability and
versatility of the novel' Observer 'The world, like the Tower of
Babel or my grandmother's deck of cards, was made out of stories,
and it was always on the verge of collapse.' Moonglow unfolds as a
deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful
painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells
stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history
long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner
with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he and a buddy set
explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while
he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? And what did he see in
the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the
war? From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion
of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia
of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the
twilight of 'the American Century', Moonglow collapses an era into
a single life and a lifetime into a single week.
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