Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as 'my grandfather'. It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt, and of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at mid-century and, above all, of the destructive impact- and the creative power- of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies. A major literary event!