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Please Don't Come Back From the Moon

Please Don't Come Back From the Moon

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Please Don't Come Back From the Moon

by Bakopoulos, Dean

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  • near fine
  • Paperback
Condition
Near Fine
ISBN 10
0156031671
ISBN 13
9780156031677
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unused book from closed bookstore inventory; clean, tight and square, text is clean and unmarked, no spine crease, no tears or other creases, corner tips are bumped, tiny indentation on the front cover

Synopsis

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 debut novel for anyone who has ever been left longing.

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Bookseller
Book Nook Monroe US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
503019
Title
Please Don't Come Back From the Moon
Author
Bakopoulos, Dean
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0156031671
ISBN 13
9780156031677
Publisher
Harvest Book / Harcourt, Inc.
Place of Publication
New York, NY, USA
Date Published
2006
Pages
273
Size
8vo - over 7 3/4 - 9 3/4" tall
Keywords
fiction, working class families, single-parent family, runaway husband, fatherless, teen boys, Michigan, magic realism, social satire
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction - General;

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Monroe, Michigan

About Book Nook Monroe

We were a small independent new & used bookstore established in 1969 in historic downtown Monroe, Michigan. As of September 2021 we have closed the store to the the public and have transitioned to on-line selling only. We are diligently (most days) trying to add hundreds & hundreds of (so far ignored) books in two storage units along with the new books left in our inventory. This is gonna take awhile - stay tuned.

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