Moonglow : a novel / 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 portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator' 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062225559
- ISBN: 0062225553
- Physical Description: 430 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016.
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- 62 of 65 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Old Fort Branch Library | FIC CHA (Text) | 37810435476931 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F CHABON (Text) | 39493108083801 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Main Library | F Chabon (Text) | 34269001172684 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | F CHABON (Text) | 40599000981012 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | F CHA (Text) | 80605000798909 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beaufort Main | F CHABO (Text) | 34208203550917 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | FIC Chabon (Text) | 540191011090730 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Canton Library | F Chabon (Text) | 33115007026351 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Charles H. Stone Memorial Library | F CHABON (Text) | 40599000981020 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Columbus Library | F CHA (Text) | 31250200033091 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
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 portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator' 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.
