Moonglow - A Novel

Zusatztext "Inventively fuses family history and fiction but leaves cracks for happiness and meaning to shine through." Informationen zum Autor Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children. Klappentext 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 before heard, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. 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 also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which the author devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. Zusammenfassung 44213965

Product details

• Authors: Michael Chabon
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2016
• EAN: 9780062466723
• ISBN: 978-0-06-246672-3
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Science Fiction, Family life fiction, United States of America, USA, Romance: fantasy and paranormal, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Science Fiction / General, FICTION: Romance / Fantasy, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, JEWISH STUDIES: LITERATURE, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Romance / New Adult, FICTION: Urban & Street Lit, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Street fiction / urban fiction, Literature / General Fiction, First Year Experience / Fiction, Jewish Studies / Literature