{"product_id":"moonglow-a-novel-isbn-9780062225559","title":"Moonglow: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Sophie Brody Medal\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eAn NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction\u003cem\u003e • Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e’s Best Novel of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eSlate\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eiBooks Novel of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eAn Amazon Editors' Top 20 Book of the Year\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003e#1 Indie Next Pick\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003e#1 Amazon Spotlight Pick\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editors’ Choice\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eBookPage\u003c\/em\u003e Top Fiction Pick of the Month\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eAn Indie Next Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This book is beautiful.” \u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003e A.O. Scott, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, cover review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing on the heels of his \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling novel \u003cem\u003eTelegraph Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/em\u003e, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eMoonglow \u003c\/em\u003eunfolds 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eMoonglow \u003c\/em\u003eis Chabon at his most moving and inventive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“The grandfather is a terrific character: difficult, complex, admirable—at once unique and typical of a generation…. Audacious and accomplished, Moonglow is a four-hundred-page love letter to that generation, and one is thankful to Chabon for having brought one of those characters so vividly back to life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancine Prose, New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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…. \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e prisms through a single life the desires and despair of the Greatest Generation, whose small steps and giant leaps continue to shape us all.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamilton Cain, O Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Like \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, and especially \u003ci\u003eThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier \u0026amp; Clay\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJon Foro, The Amazon Book Review, Spotlight Pick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e explores the war, sex, and technology of mid-century America in all its glory and folly. It’s simultaneously Chabon’s most imaginative and personal work to date.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNovember Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sparkling, richly satisfying.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage, Top Fiction Pick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His most beautifully realized novel to date ... a masterful and resounding novel of the dark and blazing forces that forged our tumultuous, confounding, and precious world.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e is another literary tour de force by one of America’s great writers, extraordinary rich and poignant.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathyan Kirsch, The Jewish Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His prose is as luminous as ever.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Absolutely brilliant…. Stylistically and emotionally, \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e took our breath away over and over.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eiBooks Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Intoxicating.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Wright, Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You will not find better, funnier, more varied writing in a novel this year.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaty Waldman, Slate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chabon aims for the moon and successfully touches down on the lunar surface.... An emotional tale of love and loss; fabulous, at times magical, writing. \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e floats through time and space to carry the reader to a fascinating new world.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Elderfield, Associated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“All stories worth telling are at their hearts mysteries, a search for missing pieces. This is true of both fact and fiction, a point the book deftly makes by the sly counterpoint of those categories. In \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e, Chabon has taken on that search with a quiet, cosmic playfulness.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTalya Zax, Forward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Perhaps the most accessible of America’s great literary novelists since the death of John Updike.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin Nance, USA Today, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chabon renders an entire era within a single deathbed confession—a scale model of life after the Second World War.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCody Delistraty, The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An exercise in exploring the slippery nature of truth, memory and what makes a compelling story. Are stories ‘just names and dates and places [that don’t] add up to anything?’ like Grandpa suggests? Or are they, instead, something more illusive, more aching, more mysterious and meaningful. In terms of \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e, it’s definitely the latter.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Utterly enchanting. Chabon makes you believe, even as you know you’re being pulled along by the romance of a good story. \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about faith in storytelling itself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristine Pivovar, The Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fascinating.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Inventively fuses family history and fiction but leaves cracks for happiness and meaning to shine through.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebecca Foster, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A flamboyantly imaganitive work of fiction dressed in the sheep’s clothing of autobiography....His most confident and complex performance....\u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e is a movingly bittersweet novel that balances wonder with lamentation.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Pulitzer Prize winner’s most probing and substantial book yet.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Upchurch, Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A high-spirited pack of lies rakishly masquerading as a memoir.... Delicious.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarion Winik, Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chabon writes with the aplomb of a test pilot,” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Merschel, Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Refreshing honest, funny, and succint: Chabon in a nutshell.... \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e is a long, elegant mess that feels like truth. It is both elegiac and immeditate, balanced between rambling, wrenching emotion and clean descriptive precision.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmily Simon, Buffalo News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRon Charles, The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An often rollicking, ultimately moving read. And like the song, it’s liable to stay with you.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeller McAlpin, NPR.org\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e, he writes with both lovely lyricism and highly caffeinated fervor.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichiko Kakutani, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This novel is Chabon’s Apollo mission to the past, launched with the same combination of ingenuity, dedication, and wonder.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Kirsch, Tablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A poignant, engrossing triumph.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vibrant…. A feast for fans of the Pulitzer winner’s magical prose.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There’s rarely a moment in this book ... when Chabon isn’t delivering some of the liveliest and richest writing to be found on the current fiction scene.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Barsanti, PopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If we consider the novel a race and the memoir a marathon, Chabon has been training for \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e his whole career.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulia Cook, The Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A dying grandfather transports the reader through an entire era via lyrical tales of war, love and model rockets.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e is most fundamentally a credible and carnal love story. You so love the two grandparents that you have a stake in their literal existence. You want the world to be like this, not just some book. Art, such magical stuff is called.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Christgau, The Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Michael Chabon fills this dashing, Technicolor tribute to his grandfather’s generation with outsize mythology. Space travel and sorcery are just two of the novel’s wondrous themes. The book, his best yet, cements his place in the front of American writers.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest Book of the Year, The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e blurs the line between autobiography and fiction in interesting ways, and manages to feel more artful than most memoirs and more true than most novels.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A magical family narrative that is as grand and mysterious as the literary form in which he presents it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin Nance, Poets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Charming and elegantly structured.... What seduces the reader is Chabon’s language, which reinvents the world, joyously, on almost every page.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Luminous.... The story builds to core revelations of wartime horror and postwar heartbreak as powerful as they come.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Radiant.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSloane Crosley, Vanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A story as much about the art of storytelling as it is about family, history, and the 20th century, \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling achievement.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Very powerful]…. Gorgeously written and shaded with sadness, a story of recklessness, bravery and loss that spans the 20th century.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin Canfield, Kansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A marvel of melancholy enchantment.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eColette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888704778469,"sku":"NP9780062225559","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062225559.jpg?v=1730229662","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/moonglow-a-novel-isbn-9780062225559","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}