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The summer Michael Smolij turns sixteen, his father disappears. One by one other men also vanish from the blue-collar neighborhood outside Detroit where their fathers before them had lived, raised families, and, in a more promising era, worked. One man props open the door to his shoe store and leaves a note. "I'm going to the moon," it reads. "I took the cash."
The wives drink, brawl, and sleep around, gradually settling down to make new lives and shaking off the belief in an American dream that, like their husbands, has proven to be a thing of the past. Unable to leave the neighborhood their fathers abandoned, Michael and his friends stumble through their twenties until the restlessness of the fathers blooms in them, threatening to carry them away.
This is a haunting, unforgettable novel for anyone who has ever been left longing.
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Published in hardcover by Harcourt, 2004, 0-15-101135-4
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ADVANCED PRAISE FOR PLEASE DON'T COME BACK FROM THE MOON
"A beautifully smart, comic, and moving narrative about the fathers who disappear and the sons who take their place, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon is somehow both realistic and visionary . . . This is a wonderful book."--Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love
"Families, heartbreak, political and social comedy--there is little that Dean Bakopoulos doesn't grasp in an articulate, wittily perceptive, and soulful way, before he hands it back to the reader as literary art. Please Don't Come Back from the Moon is an original and brilliant first work of fiction."--Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America
"Please Don't Come Back from the Moon is a pitch-perfect debut by a fine young novelist. Dean Bakopoulos makes his indelible mark on the coming-of-age novel."--Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0552773174
- ISBN 13 9780552773171
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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Condition: Bueno. : When I was sixteen, my father went to the moon. When Michael was sixteen his father left home. He wasn't the first to go. One by one other men in the blue-collar neighbourhood outside Detroit where Michael lives vanish. One props open the door to his shoe store and leaves a note. 'I'm going to the moon,' it reads, 'I took all the cash'.The wives are left behind, and with few jobs and fewer opportunities they drink, brawl, sleep around, and gradually make new lives knowing their husbands are never coming back. Michael and his friends grow up. They try to get an education, start their first jobs, fall in love and begin to build families of their own. Until one night the restlessness of their fathers blooms in them, threatening to carry them away.This is a haunting, unforgettable début novel of fathers and sons, and of growing up the hard way. Shot through with magic and brimming with humanity, it is a novel for anyone who has even been left longing. EAN: 9780552773171 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y ficción|Ficción por género Título: Please Don't Come Back from The Moon Autor: Dean Bakopoulos Editorial: Transworld Publ. Ltd UK (30 enero 2006) Idioma: EN Páginas: 320 Formato: Tapa blanda Peso: 220 Año de publicación: 2006. Seller Inventory # Happ-2022-10-04-c08175c2
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