![]() ![]() This gives Chabon and his narrator leeway to leaf at will through chapters of the grandfather’s life without feeling obligated to connect the dots. Moonglow is ingeniously constructed as a memoir, told by the narrator (himself unnamed until fairly late in the game) based on his grandfather’s presumably disjointed deathbed confessions, which resist being forced to make traditional kinds of sense. Entertainment Weekly Chabon renders an entire era within a single deathbed confessiona scale model of life after the Second World War. iBooks Review His prose is as luminous as ever. There’s a perfectly good internal logic for this. Stylistically and emotionally, Moonglow took our breath away over and over. They meld, rather, into a meditation on the Jewish-American experience in the 20th century. But, told as they are out of sequence, chronological or otherwise (and often piecemeal at that), these episodes don’t build into what many readers will recognize as a coherent story. A number of rather fine set pieces unfold - such as the one that opens the novel, in which the unnamed hero, the narrator’s grandfather, takes comically violent vengeance on a boss for dumping him to open up a position for accused Soviet spy Alger Hiss, recently released from prison. ![]()
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