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      By Chabon, Michael
       2016., Adult, Harper Call No: Fic Cha   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother's home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon's grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis of the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain in the ongoing magic act that is the art of Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as 'my grandfather.' It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at mid-century and, above all, of the destructive impact--and the creative power--of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies. A gripping, poignant, tragicomic, scrupulously researched and wholly imaginary transcript of a life that spanned the dark heart of the twentieth century, Moonglow is also a tour de force of speculative history in which Chabon attempts to reconstruct the mysterious origins and fate of Chabon Scientific, Co., an authentic mail-order novelty company whose ads for scale models of human skeletons, combustion engines and space rockets were once a fixture in the back pages of Esquire, Popular Mechanics and Boy's Life. Along the way Chabon devises and reveals, in bits and pieces whose hallucinatory intensity is matched only by their comic vigor and the radiant moonglow of his prose, a secret history of his own imagination."--From publisher.
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      By Chabon, Michael
       2012., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Cha    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: FP 12,500(CDN) As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy and Nat are still hanging in there, long-time friends, bandmates and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a used vinyl store on the sketchy freewheeling borderlands of Berkley and Oakland. When an ex-NFL quarterback, the 4th richest man in America, announces plans to construct his latest megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom. What they don't know is that the announcement marks the climax of a decades-old secret history. Also available UAB/CD & LP.
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      By Chabon, Michael
       2008., Random House Trade Paperbacks Call No: Fic Cha    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Pittsburgh professor and author Grady Tripp is working on an unwieldy 2,611 page manuscript that is meant to be the follow-up to his successful, award-winning novel The Land Downstairs, which was published seven years earlier. On the eve of a college-sponsored writers and publishers weekend called WordFest, two monumental things happen to Tripp: his wife walks out on him, and he learns that his mistress, who is also the chancellor of the college, Sara Gaskell, is pregnant with his child. To top it all off, Tripp finds himself involved in a bizarre crime involving one of his students, an alienated young writer named James Leer. During a party, Leer shoots and kills the chancellorœs dog and steals her husbandœs prized Marilyn Monroe collectible: the jacket worn by the actress on the day of her marriage to Joe DiMaggio.