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[salty-horse]

Moonglow by Michael Chabon is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us.

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 for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon.

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.

[salty-horse]

A bunch of Francis Spufford books are on sale today in the UK on Amazon.
Kobo hasn't updated their prices but are eligible for a price match.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

A bunch of Francis Spufford books are on sale today in the UK on Amazon.
Kobo hasn't updated their prices but are eligible for a price match.

Thanks! I've wanted to read I May Be Some Time for some time and it's not available digitally here. (The paperback is a whopping $16 at Amazon and I don't read paper anyway.)

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

A bunch of Francis Spufford books are on sale today in the UK on Amazon.
Kobo hasn't updated their prices but are eligible for a price match.

Maybe a better Kobo search
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/search?qu...4-574bdbae5f96

[salty-horse]

Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns.

For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone – or something – is monitoring the town’s citizens.

Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster’s machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy – one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Got it.

Thank you!