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Moonglow by Chabon, Michael

ISBN: 9781460753224 PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd FORMAT: Hardback PAGES: 288 PUBLICATION DATE: 21.11.2016 DIMENSIONS: 24.3 x 16.2 x 3.9 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: Pulitzer Prizewinning 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. 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 midcentury 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 ranges from the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to New York's Wallkill Prison, from

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