Overview of Moonglow (Tpb Om) Book

A New York Times Book of the YearThe keeping of secrets and the telling of lies, sex and desire and ordinary love, existential doubt and model rocketry all feature in the new novel from the author of the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and the Yiddish Policemen s Union. The world, like the Tower of Babel or my grandmother s deck of cards, was made out of stories and it was always on the verge of collapse. Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he and a buddy set explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? and what did he see in the young girl he met inBaltimore after returning home from the war?From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of the American Century , Moonglow collapses an era into a single life and a lifetime into a single week.

• Book Type :

Contemporary Fiction

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

464 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

0008189803

• Moonglow (Tpb Om) Published On :

3 Mar 2017

• Resource:

Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Fiction Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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