Moon Palace

· Faber & Faber
4.2
10 reviews
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Paul Auster's enthralling adventure story from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' ( Guardian)
It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'
So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate.
'Clever: very. Surprising: always - Auster is a master.' The Times

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4.2
10 reviews
Rosaria Imbroglia
April 22, 2018
I found the book a but boring. The story itself is ok but not well unravelled. I am quite unhappy with the finale too. I felt like the story judt ended all of a sudden.
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oowgond
January 10, 2023
A masterpiece ,full of fantasy, drama and philosophic contemplation.
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JB Dejong
March 17, 2015
With humor. Tragic lives. No consolation but the moon.
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About the author

Paul Auster (1947-2024) was the bestselling author of The New York Trilogy, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace and 4 3 2 1, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among his many international honours were the Prix Medicis Étranger, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Carlos Fuentes Prize, given in recognition of his body of work. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lived in Brooklyn, New York.

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