Moonglow is a 2016 novel by Michael Chabon. The book chronicles the life of Chabon's grandfather, a WW2 soldier, engineer and rocket enthusiast who marries a troubled Jewish survivor from France and lives a challenging, wandering life in postwar America. Chabon tells the story using a mixture of strict memoir and creative fiction writing. [1] Moonglow by Michael Chabon | Goodreads Browse News & Interviews didn-t-finish Authors & ads blog Read 3,780 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Mic…
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Moonglow holds itself out to the reader as the memoir of Chabon's grandfather, narrated to the author on the old man's deathbed. Like a peppy, Californian Knausgaard, Chabon is exploring the. Michael Chabon Moonglow: A Novel Paperback - Oct. 3 2017 by Michael Chabon (Author) 4.1 6,833 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition $11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover $28.98 Other new, used and collectible from $10.92 Paperback $19.99 Other new and used from $10.99 Audio CD 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. 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.
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Mr. Chabon weaves these knotted-together tales together into a tapestry that's as complicated, beautiful and flawed as an antique carpet. The novel would have benefited from some rigorous editing. Moonglow by Michael Chabon review - a novel posing as a family memoir Philip Hensher Fri 3 Feb 2017 10.00 EST F rom the second world war onwards, many of the most compelling novelists in the US. Michael Chabon's new book is described on the title page as "a novel," in an author's note as a "memoir" and in the acknowledgments as a "pack of lies." This is neither as confusing nor as. In Michael Chabon's new book, "Moonglow," about the lasting effects of the Second World War, it is difficult to discern what is autobiographical and what is not. PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID BUTOW /.
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MOONGLOW By Michael Chabon 430 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $28.99. Michael Chabon's new book is described on the title page as "a novel," in an author's note as a "memoir" and in. Chabon's new novel is a collection of stories in which a dying grandfather tells the secrets of his life to his grandson. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Moonglow "violent and very funny.".
Michael Chabon's new novel is "Moonglow." (David Butow/For The Timess) By Kate Tuttle Nov. 24, 2016 7 AM PT Fatherhood has long fascinated Michael Chabon. In one of the essays included in. Michael Chabon's Moonglow is a New York Times bestseller and highly acclaimed novel. It tells the winding story of a man's deathbed confessions. From the perspective of the dying man's grandson, we learn of love, suffering, and the impact of lies all set in the twentieth century.
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"Chabon imbricates his characters' particular histories with broader, detail-rich narratives of war, migration, and technological advances. . . . What seduces the reader is Chabon's language, which reinvents the world, joyously, on almost every page." (Publishers Weekly) "A nearly 500-page epic, Moonglow explores the war, sex, and technology of mid-century America in all its glory. Moonglow: A Novel Kindle Edition by Michael Chabon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 4.2 7,024 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle $12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
