307 pages

English language

Published Feb. 24, 1990 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-011585-7
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Moon Palace is a novel written by Paul Auster that was first published in 1989. The novel is set in Manhattan and the U.S. Midwest, and centers on the life of the narrator Marco Stanley Fogg and the two previous generations of his family.

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reviewed Moon palace by Paul Auster (Contemporary American fiction)

"The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future"

An intelligent young man, for no particular reason other than passing intellectual fancies, decides that he will give up on many of the activities that constitute living. He withdraws more and more into himself. His inner life is interesting, and he is a good companion for our journey into it, but eventually he reaches a crisis and must return to the world outside. He meets some outrageous characters, and gets drawn into other lives, and comes to understand his own a little better. At the end, reborn, he is ready finally to live.

This is all done with a sense of fun and play -- almost no deadly seriousness whatsoever, and Auster is a fantastic stylist. I enjoyed it very much.

reviewed Moon palace by Paul Auster (Contemporary American fiction)

Review of 'Moon palace' on 'GoodReads'

Some excellent passages that are stilted occasionally by the writing style, but this is still a memorable adventure (and strangely an excellent companion piece to 'A Fraction of the Whole', which I finished days earlier)

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  • Invalids -- Fiction.