Moon Palace (Contemporary American Fiction)

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Moon Palace (Contemporary American Fiction) Book Detail

Series: Contemporary American Fiction
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (April 1, 1990)
Language: English

ISBN-10: 0140115854
ISBN-13: 978-0140115857
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.6 x 7.9 inches

Moon Palace (Contemporary American Fiction) Book Synopsis

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction.
Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is the most entertaining and moving novel yet from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination.
Moon Palace (Contemporary American Fiction) Book Review
Typical Auster: strong line writing, well-defined characters, coincidence-heavy plot, a nonexistent ending. The latter two separates Auster from the pool of countless other “literary” authors. Nobody else has Auster’s uncanny ability to evoke the desperation of loneliness.
This is a strange novel, but if you’ve read Auster before, it’s going to feel as familiar as that pillow you sleep under every night. There’s this guy named M.S. Fogg, he’s an orphan, and all sorts of crazy things happen to him, some by his doing, some by coincidence. The density of Auster’s plot is staggering; the entire story of Effing, a character Fogg meets, could easily have been another book. That whole section almost reads like a Reader’s Digest version of a bigger book, but I didn’t mind at all. I don’t mind efficiency when it’s done right.
Don’t expect much from the ending. It just is. If you expect a nice tidy package at the end, you’re gonna be disappointed. Just take it for what it is.
This is my third Auster, already having read “In the Country of Last Things” and “The New York Trilogy.” I love them all. I’m also a fan of Haruki Murakami, and I highly recommend you check out his books if you like Auster. They have striking similarities: both tend to utilize an unsure unwilling first person voices (faux noir, almost), work with weird plots, have coincidences aplenty, and have nonstandard endings. Get online Moon Palace (Contemporary American Fiction) today.