NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal - An
NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction - ALA Carnegie Medal
Finalist for Excellence in Fiction - Wall Street Journal's Best
Novel of the Year - A New York Times Notable Book of the Year - A
Washington Post Best Book of the Year - An NPR Best Book of the
Year - A Slate Best Book of the Year - A Christian Science Monitor
Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year - A New York Magazine Best Book of
the Year - A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year - A Buzzfeed
Best Book of the Year - A New York Post Best Book of the Year
iBooks Novel of the Year - An Amazon Editors' Top 20 Book of the
Year - #1 Indie Next Pick - #1 Amazon Spotlight Pick - A New York
Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A BookPage Top Fiction Pick of
the Month - An Indie Next Bestseller "This book is beautiful." --
A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover review 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 midcentury, 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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