Moon Palace: Paul Auster - Softcover

Auster, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571142206 ISBN 13: 9780571142200

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2004

Synopsis

'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'

So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate.

'Clever: very. Surprising: always - Auster is a master.' The Times

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Review:

Auster is a masterly storyteller. . .Moon Palace shimmers with mysteries.
The Washington Post Book World
Enormously compelling. . .Auster has a rare combination of talent, scope, and audacity.
The New Republic
Good hearted and hopeful, verbally exuberant.
The New York Times Book Review

Reads like a composite of works by Fielding, Dickens, and Twain. . .Auster has a lot of fun concocting Marco s adventures, almost has much fun as one has in reading them.
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"

"Auster is a masterly storyteller. . .Moon Palace shimmers with mysteries."
- The Washington Post Book World
"Enormously compelling. . .Auster has a rare combination of talent, scope, and audacity."
- The New Republic
"Good hearted and hopeful, verbally exuberant."
- The New York Times Book Review

"Reads like a composite of works by Fielding, Dickens, and Twain. . .Auster has a lot of fun concocting Marco's adventures, almost has much fun as one has in reading them."
- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

-Auster is a masterly storyteller. . .Moon Palace shimmers with mysteries.-
- The Washington Post Book World
-Enormously compelling. . .Auster has a rare combination of talent, scope, and audacity.-
- The New Republic
-Good hearted and hopeful, verbally exuberant.-
- The New York Times Book Review

-Reads like a composite of works by Fielding, Dickens, and Twain. . .Auster has a lot of fun concocting Marco's adventures, almost has much fun as one has in reading them.-
- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Book Description:

Moon Palace is Paul Auster's enthralling adventure story, re-examining our concepts of America, art, and the self.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0571142206
• ISBN 13: 9780571142200
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320