Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11094 in Books
• Published on: 1990-04-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Synopsis
A contemporary novel which tells the story of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s - spanning three generations. The narrative moves from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, from Manhattan to the landscape of the American West.

Customer Reviews

Moon Palace
This is the first Paul Auster novel I have read. It took me a while to get into it, the first 20 pages or so were difficult to absorb but then I couldn't put it down. I love his style of story telling and shall definately read more of his.

I always keep a copy within easy reach
I have been a big Auster fan for some time - even wrote my MA's thesis on one of his opus.

Moon Palace is the one book that I am drawn to on a regular basis. I read it regularly and have found myself the owner of various editions in different languages.

A coming of age story, full of sadness and joy, I recommend it regularly.

Most readers tend to refer to the NY Trilogy, while commonalities of themes are definite, I would tend to draw a line between these and consider them as separate entities.

Captivating
I have just read the various reviews of 'Moon Palace' present here om Amazon.co.uk, and I must admit that it surprises me to see that the book has got so bad grades as it has.

'Moon Palace' is to me, a guy in his early twenties with limited knowledge on the theories of post-modern literature and what not, so I can only tell you what I got out of it.

The book is to me a great story of coincidences and how some people continue to choose paths that seems wrong to you, but makes perfect sense to the protagonist. M.S. Fogg, the protagonist, is a person that you do not really know whether you like or not, but given his sad childhood with an absent father and a mother that dies tragically, maybe it is not so difficult to understand why Fogg does what he does.

As in all Auster books, Auster creates a really great background story to all the characters, describing them so lively that you are convinced they must have been real persons. Both Thomas Effing, Kitty Wu, Solomon Barber and Miss Hume are presented really well, and whereas the protagonist sort of becomes a character a background, all the other steal the picture quite well.

How Mr Auster creates these stories I do not know, but it is certain that I will have read each and every one of them before long.