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The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
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Publisher Price: $15.99
ISBN13: 9780060974978
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Sep 9 1992
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.12
Language: English
Awards: Oregon Book Awards
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon is an American epic of the old West for our own times--a novel huge in its imaginative scope and daring in its themes. The narrator is Shed, or Duivichi-un-Dua, a half-breed bisexual boy who makes his living at the Indian Head Hotel in the little turn-of-the-century town of Excellent, Idaho. The imperious Ida Richilieu is Shed's employer, the town's mayor, and the mistress and owner of this outrageously pink whorehouse. Together with the beautiful prostitute Alma Hatch, and the philosophical, green-eyed, half-crazy cowboy Dellwood Barker, this collection of misfits and outcasts make up the core of Shed's eccentric family. And although laced with the ugliness and cruelty of the frontier West--Shed is raped by the same man who then murders the woman he thinks is his mother, and the Mormon townspeople bring a fiery end to Ida's raucous way of life--the love and acceptance that tie this family together provide the true heart of this novel.
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon is a beautifully told, mythic tale that is as well a profound meditation on sexuality, race and man's relationship to himself and the natural world.
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