Moonglow By Michael Chabon (Paperback, 2017)

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Telegraph Book of the Year A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Slate Book of the Year Probably Chabon's greatest a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone in 2017' The Times Entirely sure footed propulsive the work of a master at his very best The brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form itself a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability & versatility of the novel' Observer The world like the Tower of Babel or my grandmother's deck of cards was made out of stories & 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 & 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 & a buddy set explosives on a bridge in Washington DC? What did he feel while he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? & what did he see in the young girl he met in Baltimore 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 & a lifetime into a single week