About this title: This Dickensian novel tells the strange story of Marco Stanley Fogg: his trials of poverty and depression; his rescue by Kitty Wu, a beautiful Chinese woman; and his eventual position as a live-in companion to an old man. Marco's recording of the old man's life story becomes his obsession as well as the focus of the novel.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780670825097ISBN:0670825093
Description: Good in Good jacket. 136-X-Add9780553801699 Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Good. 0670825093 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140115857ISBN:0140115854
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Wear to edges of soft cover. Page taning from age. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Contemporary American Fiction. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Description: Very Good. 0571168639 Condition: VERY GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, cover wear, name written inside cover, light underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, etc. Overall, the book is in solid shape. This is a blanket description. Please email us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week of your request). read more
Description: Good. Cover slightly worn Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1990-04-01
ISBN-13:9780140115857ISBN:0140115854
Description: Good. Used for class has underlining and notes. No highlighting. Cover shows some wear or creases. Pages yellowed/tanned. You're gonna love this book! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140115857ISBN:0140115854
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Contemporary American Fiction. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Auster, Paul., Viking, nd, c1989, (BOMC? ), stiff illus. wrapps, vg-f, 307 pps, 8vo, 'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was youngback then, but I did not believe there would ever be...' read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 1989
Description: Fine and bright in near fine price-clipped dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Light internal mend, barely noticed. Small line to bottom edge. Excellent reading copy. read more
Edition: Edition Not Stated
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Livre De Poche, Paris
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9782253137283ISBN:2253137286
Description: Good. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. (FR) No markings, stress creases to cover, Good used copy. Wraps, 317pp. This fantasy novel featuring Marco Stanley Fogg is entirely in French, (1.0 JM FO 60/6. read more
"Here's a solid, old-school novel. A good writerly read. Funny how elements (even the fact) of this author's maturity and skill strike me as anachronisms. Auster showcases some great story-telling & long exposition, with relatively little dialogue (which dominates so much contemporary fiction & screenplay-influenced writing).
He likes foretelling events as a kind of hook--starting out, say, revealing for nothing that the NYC-based protagonist eventually crosses the Utah & Nevada wilderness on foot--and then draws us on a taut line of that anticipation through the quieter, psychologically real events leading up to it. A Shakespearean-level of coincidence looms large here, both as a theme and a plot device. There's a cogent section on the protagonist's attempts to describe the world to a blind man that maps exactly, probably intentionally, onto a writer's attempt to distill observations of the world for readers."
"I have discovered from this book that I truly love Paul Auster. I guess I do like postmodernist fiction as well, I just have to find a good writer of said genre. This book has amazing descriptive narrative, and gives you the most feelings a book ever has. At some point during this narrative I have laughed and almost been at the brink of tears. It is really an amazing book. The characters are all completely easy to relate to, even though I am not an orphan, an immigrant from Taiwan or an obese professor who lost their father. It makes you see the broad range of humanity and yet the striking similarity inherent in every human being. The same emotions of loss, pain, discovery and love. I think I really enjoyed how the love story wasn't the main part of the novel as well, it was really a book about family, the idea of family and the diversity that exists in that Western concept. For, without knowing it Effing was family to Fogg, before he discovered the truth.
In addition, the fact that this contains so many beautiful and subtle symbols and such imagery connects to poignantly to the themes of the novel. The end especially, when Solomon falls into a grave, his gradual death and M.S.'s epiphany that he is indeed his father contribute to the complexity of Fogg's dilemma, but I think it has a beautiful ending that illustrates the love that can still exist within a clearly broken family. Overall, I recommend this book to anyone, really, any human I think can appreciate the beauty and meaning in this novel. Once again, Paul Auster has written an amazing and meaningful work."
"It's uneven and a bit disorienting the way the narrative jolts us from one character (and time period, and place) to the next, but i found it entirely unpredictable. It's beautifully written, but that goes without saying. What most endeared me to Moon Palace was it's remarkable resemblence to my own internal landscape. I recognized so many of the thoughts and feelings of Auster's characters as some of my own in disguise, and it's not the first time that's happened to me with Auster; everytime i read him, i seem to discover a bit more of myself in the process. Is this book objectively a great one? Not really, hence the loss of a star. Certain sections really weren't constructed with the deftness i'd come to expet from Auster, and again, the unevenness of the narrative is jolting, but that being said, i really did love this book."
"This was a Friends of the Library book purchase - only a dime; and I'm writing in it. Underlining sentences, circling words. Auster has the authorial voice I need to hear right now - a zen melancholy."
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