Moon Palace
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A "beautiful and haunting" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel of an orphan's search for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his fate, from New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster
"Auster is a master storyteller . . . Moon Palace shimmers with mysteries."--The Washington Post Book World Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction. Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and from there moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is an entertaining and moving novel from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination.
"Auster is a master storyteller . . . Moon Palace shimmers with mysteries."--The Washington Post Book World Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction. Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and from there moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is an entertaining and moving novel from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140115854
ISBN13:9780140115857
Release Date:April 1990
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
An added bonus
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I read this book during my honeymoon. I enjoyed it so much, that it made my wife complain because I didn't spend enough time with her. Trust me, I have read pretty much everything Auster has written, and I found this to be his most interesting and captivating work.
Sublime - The essence of Auster
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Paul Auster's "Moon Palace" is a dark, intellectual book about the loneliness and momentary as well as incurable basic identity-crisis (the angst) in the intellectually focus man. But it is also an amazing example of not only the "oh"-effect of chance but also of its intriguing beauty. This is as much Auster as Auster can be. It deals with his most common themes. But in this story it does so in a more subtle and delicate way than in "The New York Trilogy" and yet it can impossibly seem as empty as his small accounts of the impact of chance in "The Red Notebook" and "Why Write?" do to some. It is about something as basic as finding out where you come from and where you are going. And it tells us that we, ourselves, don't always seem to be the ones to decide.
Findings and loss
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
_Moon Palace_ flickers through three generations of a family, with M.S. Fogg as the family avatar. Fogg is orphaned and uncled, and orphaned and sistered and fathered and fathering and finally orphaned again in a strange and gorgeous circle that still somehow manages to complete itself with satisfaction (if with sadness). Auster has written a book populated by beautiful ghosts. Highly recommended.
The best Auster I rade
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book is brilliant you must read it if you want to know more about life .More reasons I like this book1) Auster creativity is outstanding 2) I never saw a man write so good 3) I never saw a book so deep ,ee every espect ofour daily life and light him . 4) fun and easy to read
What A Wonderful Story, Beautifully Told
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
In search of a good mystery I went to the Edgar Awards to find an author with whom I was unfamiliar. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster was unavailable, so I picked up Moon Palace instead. I finished the book in one sitting. It seems to be more than a novel or stories strung together to tell a tale, but rather a grouping of real and beautiful pictures orchestrated with words. There is a sense of loss at its end, as if people you have known are now, once more beyond reach. It is one of those books that you wish you had only just begun, or that it was three times longer in length. I'll go back to the book and read it again and I will read the rest of Auster's work.
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