Moonglow (Broché)

The keeping of secrets and the telling of lies ; sex and desire and ordinary love ; existential doubt and model rocketry - all feature in the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried.
Why did he try to strangle a onetime business partner with a telephone cord ? What was he thinking when he and a friend set explosives on a bridge in Washington ? What did he feel while hunting down Wernher von Braun in Germany ? And what did he see in the girl he met in Baltimore after coming home from the war ? From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of the 'American Century', Moonglow collapses an era into a single life and a lifetime into a single week.