Name: Moon palace
ISBN: 0140115854

Paul Auster

Moon palace

Joao Freitas

The “beautiful and haunting” (San Francisco Chronicle) tale of an orphan’s search for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his fate, from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel 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. From New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy).

A Novel (Penguin Ink)

Moon Palace

lena

"I was the summer that man first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but I did not believe there would ever be a future..." Spanning three generations, Moon Palace is the story of Marco Stanley Fogg and his quest for identity in the modern world. Moving from the concrete canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West, it is a meditation on and re-examination of America, art and the self, by one of America's foremost authors.

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Silvia Sants

Stanley Wood

Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld

Clare B

edith w.

Daria Bramnik

Abigaël Chevillard 

Roel Vandenhoeck

Ilja Panic

Rafa Torres

Preben T. A. Arentoft

Alice Uzzan

Capucine Fachot

Ilke

"Moon Palace" is the story of Marco Stanley Fogg's development and quest for his identity set against the background of the Manhattan urban landscape. Through chance and coincidence he discovres his origins and re-examines his relaionship with America. Within Marco's own narrative lie a number of sub-narratives wich are central to Marco's quest and which can be read as the history of modern America, forming a parallel story to Marco's own. -- 4ème de couverture.

Sophia

Gary Homewood

Esme Chiverton 