Moon's Crossing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618341535)

A stunning, cinematic debut novel set at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Moon's Crossing explores a unique time in American history, when the romantic heritage of the nineteenth century merged with the industrial temperament of the modern age.

Jim Moon, an idealistic Union Army veteran, leaves his young wife and son to visit the World's Columbian Exposition, which has attracted America's greatest artists and thinkers as well as its drifters and schemers. Nick, a fast-talking con man, takes Moon to Pullman Town, a model city south of Chicago that is the site of the complex labor strike of 1894. Moon comes to see that the bright future the fair promised is compromised by greed. Unable to recapture his early vision of America, he takes his own life, and in so doing generates a surprising love story between a common young woman and a corrupt policeman as well as a major upheaval in the life of his neglected son.
Kaleidoscopic and fast-paced, Moon's Crossing draws on such sources as the traditional tall tale to present a unique narrative style. Moon's adventures are completely American, and the legacy he leaves is, ironically, more significant than his failed life would have foretold.

Author: Barbara Croft, Croft
ISBN-10: 0618341536
ISBN-13: 9780618341535
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2003
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.51w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2003 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2003 pg. 820
Publishers Weekly 07/14/2003 pg. 54
Booklist 08/01/2003 pg. 1950
Library Journal 08/01/2003 pg. 128
Entertainment Weekly 08/15/2003 pg. 80
Booksense '76 Sep/Oct 2003 09/01/2003 pg. 1
Library Journal 04/15/2003