A Face in the Moon
Publisher: Writers Club Press
Published: April 26, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780595091072
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; Romance: Modern; General; Fiction / Romance / Contemporary; Literary; Psychological; Romance - Contemporary
First sentence: I can still see Sally standing there in the doorway in her short shorts, hands on her hips, saying, I don't think we should see each other anymore.
Description: A FACE IN THE MOON is a look back at those lost days when colors seemed more vivid and when being in love seemed the only thing that mattered. The narrator, Jack Lohman, is an inexperienced twenty-two-year old, who was recently dumped by his first real girlfriend, and is soon to leave graduate school for who knows what.  Enter Loni, a bright-eyed, free-spirited seventeen-year old who has had more than her share of experience -- she lost her virginity on her fourteenth birthday, has had more boyfriends and drugs than she cares to remember, as well as a nervous breakdown that she’s trying her best to forget.  From the moment Jack meets Loni, his life begins to change. She teaches him how to laugh, and makes him feel, for perhaps the first time in his life, that he can be loved without judgment. Yet, ironically, it is Loni's harsh self-evaluation that paralyzes her at times, turning the carefree, uninhibited woman/child into a speechless, listless teenager who laments the days when life used to be more fun. She promises to tell Jack some day about her breakdown of the summer before but for now it’s still too painful for her. Meanwhile, Jack loves her, but wonders if she’ll ever fully let him into her life. A FACE IN THE MOON is a story about two young lovers struggling to find each other and their ways in the world. And when a series of events keeps them apart longer than expected it becomes the story of whether their new love can survive the pressures of separation and madness.
Notes: A FACE IN THE MOON, the debut novel by Mitchell Waldman,  has been receiving praise from critics and readers alike, such as Critic's Corner reviewer, Patricia Ann Jones, who has called the story "a Shakespearean-like tale with a twist," has praised the author's "rich characterizations and deft narration," and has called Waldman "an author to watch." Harriet Klausner, the # 1-rated reviewer for Amazon.com, has called A FACE IN THE MOON a "very sweet tale" and "an emotionally deep story that takes the reader so deep inside a lonely, sad young man readers will hold their breath knowing that they cannot escape until the book is finished...." Ms. Klausner further said that "[w]ith more novels like his debut tale that demonstrates Mitchell Waldman['s] tremendous talent for genuine characters in real life settings, the author will not remain faceless for very long." 

    Other readers and reviewers have called the author "a talented writer with a keen sense of modern conflicts and a real talent for developing believable, sympathetic characters," and Waldman has been lauded for his "smooth narrative flow," "supple prose style" and his "adept psychological portraits of the main characters in the novel and others populating their world."

Mitchell Waldman, the author of A FACE IN THE MOON, has had short stories, poetry, and essays published in numerous magazines and other publications. 

 Some of his work has appeared in such publications as Poetpourri, Wind Magazine, Poetry Motel, Poetalk, the Poetry Peddler, Poetry Forum, the Advocate,  Desperate Act, the Hazmat Review, Mobius, Innisfree,  the Parnassus Literary Review, Verbal Expression, Bold Print, the Rochester Times-Union, and  the anthology, Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust (Northwestern University Press, 1998). 
 
His short story "Glass Slippers" was a First Place Award Winner in the 13th Story Short Story Competition. 

 He was also co-editor (with Diana L. May) of the book, Wounds of War: Poets for Peace (PublishAmerica, 2006). 

A FACE IN THE MOON is his first novel.