In Moonglow, he returns to the early days of a life that has become one of the most successful in contemporary American literature. The book frames itself as a second-hand memoir: A World War II veteran. Chabon’s new novel, Moonglow, blends the two styles while departing from both. His novels include Wonder Boys (1995), the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000), and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007). Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers. Telegraph Avenue reverted to a realist style, though its gleeful fascination with scenes like the jazz funeral seems to have benefited from the writer’s long diversion into the weird. Following that début, Chabon hopscotched between successes. Chabon’s coming-of-age novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), earned its twenty-five-year-old author praise as the next J.D. When the novel begins, the narrator, like Chabon himself, has launched a promising literary career. Moonglow is a novel about faith in storytelling itself. At the centre of this family saga that takes us through much of the American Century, we discover the complexities of that man, an engineer, World War II veteran, and occasional romantic figure who often lives inside the grey areas of the law. Chabon makes you believe, even as you know youre being pulled along by the romance of a good story. This shape-shifting novel masquerades at times as a memoir and at others as a biography of the author’s grandmother and, more frequently, of his grandfather. In Moonglow, his latest novel, Michael Chabon follows Dickinson’s directive. ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant,’ wrote Emily Dickinson.
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