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Chabon, Michael.
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Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction.
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Chabon, Michael.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction.
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Moonglow : a novel / Michael Chabon.
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Chabon, Michael.
Harper, [2016]
Call #:
FICTION CHA
Subjects
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781443418706 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
430 p. ; 24 cm
Summary:
"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 of the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain in the ongoing magic act that is the art of Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as 'my grandfather.' It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at mid-century and, above all, of the destructive impact--and the creative power--of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies. A gripping, poignant, tragicomic, scrupulously researched and wholly imaginary transcript of a life that spanned the dark heart of the twentieth century, Moonglow is also a tour de force of speculative history in which Chabon attempts to reconstruct the mysterious origins and fate of Chabon Scientific, Co., an authentic mail-order novelty company whose ads for scale models of human skeletons, combustion engines and space rockets were once a fixture in the back pages of Esquire, Popular Mechanics and Boy’s Life. Along the way Chabon devises and reveals, in bits and pieces whose hallucinatory intensity is matched only by their comic vigor and the radiant moonglow of his prose, a secret history of his own imagination."--From publisher.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Literary fiction.
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