![]() ![]() ![]() “Hindsight, and a taste for melodrama, and some faint ghost of veritable memory” coalesce to produce the irresistible light of “Moonglow.” It’s a thoroughly enchanting story about the circuitous path that a life follows, about the accidents that redirect it, and about the secrets that can be felt but never seen, like the dark matter at the center of every family’s cosmos. He listens, the ink and paper seem to fade away, and we leap with his grandfather from one spectacular, horrific or hilarious ordeal after another. If Chabon relished a certain degree of showiness in his previous novels - those fancy metaphors of his, along with an acrobatic style unlike anyone else’s - that’s largely absent in “Moonglow.” Here, his artistry is all the more remarkable for being essentially invisible. In his latest book, Michael Chabon, author of Pulitzer prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, takes on the story of his grandfather. His grandfather’s stories come to us in a hypnotic swirl of time that expands to include the heartbreaking story of his mentally ill wife and his escapades as an elderly romantic. ![]()
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