Moonglow: A Novel [Signed First Edition]
Language: English
Published by Harper, 2016
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First Edition, 1st printing. Signed by Michael Chabon on publisher's tipped-in page. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "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." [jacket copy] "This book is beautiful."--A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review. "Michael Chabon fills this dashing, Technicolor tribute to his grandfather's generation with outsize mythology. Space travel and sorcery are just two of the novel's wondrous themes. The book, his best yet, cements his place in the front of American writers."--The Wall Street Journal. "The grandfather is a terrific character: difficult, complex, admirable--at once unique and typical of a generation . . . Audacious and accomplished, MOONGLOW is a four-hundred-page love letter to that generation, and one is thankful to Chabon for having brought one of those characters so vividly back to life."--Francine Prose, New York Review of Books. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright-as-new jacket w/Signed First Edition gold sticker. Quite presentable.…
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- Title
- Moonglow: A Novel [Signed First Edition]
- Author
- Michael Chabon
- Publisher
- Harper
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0062225553
- ISBN 13
- 9780062225559
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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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Review
"A poignant, engrossing triumph."--People
"An often rollicking, ultimately moving read. And like the song, it's liable to stay with you."--Heller McAlpin, NPR.org
"A story as much about the art of storytelling as it is about family, history, and the 20th century, Moonglow is a dazzling achievement."--Buzzfeed
"Vibrant.... A feast for fans of the Pulitzer winner's magical prose."--Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
"Michael Chabon fills this dashing, Technicolor tribute to his grandfather's generation with outsize mythology. Space travel and sorcery are just two of the novel's wondrous themes. The book, his best yet, cements his place in the front of American writers."--Best Book of the Year, The Wall Street Journal
"The grandfather is a terrific character: difficult, complex, admirable--at once unique and typical of a generation.... Audacious and accomplished, Moonglow is a four-hundred-page love letter to that generation, and one is thankful to Chabon for having brought one of those characters so vividly back to life."--Francine Prose, New York Review of Books
"Moonglow is most fundamentally a credible and carnal love story. You so love the two grandparents that you have a stake in their literal existence. You want the world to be like this, not just some book. Art, such magical stuff is called."--Robert Christgau, The Village Voice
"A magical family narrative that is as grand and mysterious as the literary form in which he presents it."--Kevin Nance, Poets & Writers
"Perhaps the most accessible of America's great literary novelists since the death of John Updike."--Kevin Nance, USA Today, starred review
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