| Please Don't Come Back from the Moon Contributor(s): Bakopoulos, Dean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156031671 ISBN-13: 9780156031677 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: In this haunting debut novel, Michael Smolij and his friends are unable to leave the blue-collar Detroit neighborhoods abandoned by their fathers. They stumble through their teens into their 20s until the restlessness of the fathers blooms in them, threatening to carry them away. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004011237 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.65 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Michigan - Locality - Detroit, Michigan - Sex & Gender - Masculine - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Family |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 86488 Reading Level: 5.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bakopoulos, Dean: - Dean Bakopoulos is the author of the novel Please Don't Come Back from the Moon, a New York Times Notable Book, and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is on the faculty at Iowa State University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. |