Moon Palace

by Paul Auster

Book Overview

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction. Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and moving backward and forward in time to span three...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670825093
• ISBN13: 9780670825097
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An added bonus

I read this book during my honeymoon. I enjoyed it so much, that it made my wife complain because I didn't spend enough time with her. Trust me, I have read pretty much everything Auster has written, and I found this to be his most interesting and captivating work.

Sublime - The essence of Auster

Paul Auster's "Moon Palace" is a dark, intellectual book about the loneliness and momentary as well as incurable basic identity-crisis (the angst) in the intellectually focus man. But it is also an amazing example of not only the "oh"-effect of chance but also of its intriguing beauty. This is as much Auster as Auster can be. It deals with his most common themes. But in this story it does so in a more subtle and delicate way than in "The New York Trilogy" and yet it can impossibly seem as empty as his small accounts of the impact of chance in "The Red Notebook" and "Why Write?" do to some. It is about something as basic as finding out where you come from and where you are going. And it tells us that we, ourselves, don't always seem to be the ones to decide.

Findings and loss

_Moon Palace_ flickers through three generations of a family, with M.S. Fogg as the family avatar. Fogg is orphaned and uncled, and orphaned and sistered and fathered and fathering and finally orphaned again in a strange and gorgeous circle that still somehow manages to complete itself with satisfaction (if with sadness). Auster has written a book populated by beautiful ghosts. Highly recommended.

The best Auster I rade

This book is brilliant you must read it if you want to know more about life .More reasons I like this book1) Auster creativity is outstanding 2) I never saw a man write so good 3) I never saw a book so deep ,ee every espect ofour daily life and light him . 4) fun and easy to read

What A Wonderful Story, Beautifully Told

In search of a good mystery I went to the Edgar Awards to find an author with whom I was unfamiliar. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster was unavailable, so I picked up Moon Palace instead. I finished the book in one sitting. It seems to be more than a novel or stories strung together to tell a tale, but rather a grouping of real and beautiful pictures orchestrated with words. There is a sense of loss at its end, as if people you have known are now, once more beyond reach. It is one of those books that you wish you had only just begun, or that it was three times longer in length. I'll go back to the book and read it again and I will read the rest of Auster's work.