Moonglow: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Chabon, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0062225553 ISBN 13 : 9780062225559

Editeur : Harper, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

“Elegiac and deeply poignant ... Chabon weaves these knotted-together tales together into a tapestry that’s as complicated, beautiful and flawed as an antique carpet.... Chabon is one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists.... In Moonglow, he writes with both lovely lyricism and highly caffeinated fervor.” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

“An exuberant meld of fiction and family history.... It’s the caliber of his writing-evocative sentences and indelible metaphors-that gives the novel its luster.... Moonglow prisms through a single life the desires and despair of the Greatest Generation, whose small steps and giant leaps continue to shape us all.” (Hamilton Cain, O Magazine)

“A wondrous book that celebrates the power of family bonds and the slipperiness of memory....A thoroughly enchanting story about the circuitous path that a life follows, about the accidents that redirect it, and about the secrets that can be felt but never seen, like the dark matter at the center of every family’s cosmos.” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post)

“Mix[es] in generous dollops of meaning, a sprinkling of fancy metaphors and an abundance of beautiful sentences so that it becomes a rich and exotic confection. Too strict a recipe would have spoiled the charm of this layer cake of nested memories and family legends.... This book is beautiful.” (A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover review)

“A flamboyantly imaganitive work of fiction dressed in the sheep’s clothing of autobiography....His most confident and complex performance....Moonglow is a movingly bittersweet novel that balances wonder with lamentation.” (Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal)

“Like The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, and especially The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, this is classic Chabon: an intensely personal story uplifted by the shifting tectonic plates of truth and memory, floating atop his inimitably crafted, sometimes audacious, always original prose.” (Jon Foro, The Amazon Book Review, Spotlight Pick)

“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)

“Absolutely brilliant.... Stylistically and emotionally, Moonglow took our breath away over and over.” (iBooks Review)

“His prose is as luminous as ever.” (Entertainment Weekly)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062225553
• ISBN 13: 9780062225559
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448