Paul Auster
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.94 | 19851 Users | 859 Reviews
Details Regarding Books Moon Palace
| Title | : | Moon Palace |
| Author | : | Paul Auster |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1990 by Penguin Books (first published February 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. American. Contemporary. Novels. The United States Of America. 20th Century |
Interpretation In Pursuance Of Books Moon Palace
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 sets out on a journey 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.
Specify Books As Moon Palace
| Original Title: | Moon Palace |
| ISBN: | 0140115854 (ISBN13: 9780140115857) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Marco Stanley Fogg, Uncle Victor, Thomas Effing, Julian Barber, Kitty Wu |
Rating Regarding Books Moon Palace
Ratings: 3.94 From 19851 Users | 859 ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books Moon Palace
I wanted to give it a 5 so hard, but the ending... God, why? T_TWhat on earth?This book was recommended to me by a person whose taste in literature I hold in high regard. That's why I was surprised to discover, halfway through the book, that it's a really terrible piece of pretentious writing. I felt no empathy with the main character -- a really spoiled, pretentiously "eccentric" kid with an Asian fetish trying to revel in the black aethetic of his free-fall into poverty. He's saved by Kitty Wu, the sexually precocious daughter of Chinese royalty or some
This was the first Paul Auster book I read, before I realized that he basically just writes variations of the same book. It's a good book, though, so I read all of the variations. He's got a couple of main themes--randomness, chance, coincidence, obsession--and some of the books play more strongly on some themes than on others. I think of this as the "coincidence" book.
3.5 stars
It's 1969, Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon. A new form of exploration was born.On earth, Marco Stanley Fogg follows the event, strange fate for the one who bears two names of famous explorers. Marco lost his mother at an early age, his uncle Victor took care of the child until his teens and sent him to New York to continue his studies.Marco is the wait-and-see type, he is convinced that everything comes to those who know how to wait. Installed in a squalid room among the
Postmodern American tragedy. This was my first Paul Auster work and it was clear early on that this man can write, a wonderful storyteller with a naturally flowing style. Early on I would have said that this was going to be a 5-star review from me, but as the story all started to come together, my adoration began to evaporate. There are coincidences galore and eventually these piled up upon one another to being a bit too much for this reader. The story's trajectory is a side-winding, strange
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