2016 "First Edition" stated on copyrighy page; autographed by Michael Chabon on half-title page; HarperCollins Publishers; very good as-new condition; in slipcase with unmarked separate notepad.
 
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MOONGLOW, Michael Chabon's latest novel, is a sweeping and poignant tale of a young man's journey in search of his family's secrets. Inspired by his grandfather's deathbed confessions in 1989, Chabon transports readers from the golden age of Jewish culture in 1920s Berlin to the tumultuous years of the twentieth century. Through this captivating story, readers will be moved by the power of family, the longing for home, and the courage to find one's own path.

 Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination.

 From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.