Moon Palace

by Paul Auster | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0571142206 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingcrimson-tidewing of Balingup, Western Australia Australia on 4/15/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by wingcrimson-tidewing from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, April 15, 2014
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From Library Journal:
"It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but I did not believe there would ever be a future." Yet this novel deals precisely with the future that protagonist Marco Stanley Fogg seems to doubt the most: his own. We see Marco through several quite remarkable years, during which he nearly starves himself to death out of poverty and dejection, is rescued by a beautiful Chinese girl named Kitty Wu, and ends up as the live-in helper to an invalid old man, the recording of whose life story becomes Marco's obsession and the focus of the novel. Indeed, the old man's tale eventually becomes Marco's, spiraling into one big centre where everything and everyone is (literally!) related. The novel's fantastic quality can be hard to swallow, and some of the action is maddeningly distant, but it's interesting, worthwhile reading.


I found it elegantly written and a joy to read.

Journal Entry 2 by wingcrimson-tidewing at Rutherglen, Victoria Australia on Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (4/15/2014 UTC) at Rutherglen, Victoria Australia

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