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Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

By Dean Bakopoulos

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| Paperback | 9780552773171

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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 leaveContinue

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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  • Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

    Please Don't Come Back from the Moon Dean Bakopoulos Harcourt Hardcover 288 pages February 2005 In a small Michigan town, the jobs of blue-collar workers slowly disappear in an ever-worsening economy, erasing the security of years on GM and Ford asse ... (read full critics)

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 320 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0552773174
  • ISBN-13: 9780552773171
  • Publisher: Black Swan
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
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