The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon

About this book

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 Sheds employer the towns mayor and the mistress 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 Sheds 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 Idas 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 sexualty race and mans relationship to himself and the natural world.