Ebook {Epub PDF} Please Dont Come Back from the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos

“Gorgeous, painful, and exquisitely written, Please Don’t Come Back From the Moon is about the impossible things we believe because the truth may simply be too hard.” The Boston Globe “By deftly welding magic realism with social satire, Bakopoulos captures the dark side of the working-class dream.” The New York Times Book ReviewEstimated Reading Time: 6 mins. When you hold Please Don't Come Back from the Moon in your hands, you know you're holding something different. The premise alone has the ability to off put nearly all who read it, but what Dean Bakopoulos does with it is incredible/5(). Dean Bakopoulos tells us that the title of his debut novel, PLEASE DON'T COME BACK FROM THE MOON, comes from a jazz composition by Charles Mingus, but I was immediately reminded of another song, from the s. Here is the opening verse from it - "Streets full of people, all alone Roads full of houses, never home A church full of singing, out of tune/5(49).

Dean Bakopoulos is a former bookseller, and has published fiction in Zoetrope and other journals. Dean Bakopoulos makes his indelible mark on the coming-of-age novel'. Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. All the men in a remote California desert town walk away from their families. They leave their angry, frustrated sons and daughters behind; kids who act out, engage in acts of petty burglary and vandalism, and look for Based on the book "Please don't come back from the moon" by Dean Bakopoulos. Please don't come back from the moon by Dean Bakopoulos(Book). When his father disappears along with several other men from their blue-collar Detroit neighborhood, sixteen-year-old Michael Smolij witnesses the effects of large-scale abandonment on the community's wives and mothers.

Dean Bakopoulos Booklist Dean Bakopoulos Message Board Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Please Don't Come Back From The Moon ‘Please Don't Come Back from the Moon' is a coming of age story in an area where there is not much reason to grow up. Please Don't Come Back from the Moon. Dean Bakopoulos. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, ISBN ISBN In an eerie reprise of the moon exodus 12 years before, the sons, now fathers themselves, gather spontaneously at their old rendezvous, unsure of their own loyalties. Bakopoulos doesn’t make a single wrong move, seamlessly integrating the magic-realism elements into the rest.