"Moon Palace" by Paul Auster

"It was the summer that man first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but I did not believe there would ever be a future..." Spanning three generations, Moon Palace is the story of Marco Stanley Fogg and his quest for identity in the modern world. Moving fromthe concrete canyons of Manhattan to te cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West, it is a meditation on and re-examination of America, art and the self, by one of America's foremost authors.