Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.
"A wondrous book that celebrates the power of family bonds and the
slipperiness of memory....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."--Ron
Charles, The Washington Post
"Mix[es] in generous dollops of meaning, a sprinkling of fancy
metaphors and an abundance of beautiful sentences so that it
becomes a rich and exotic confection. Too strict a recipe would
have spoiled the charm of this layer cake of nested memories and
family legends.... This book is beautiful."--A.O. Scott, New York
Times Book Review, cover review
"Moonglow blurs the line between autobiography and fiction in
interesting ways, and manages to feel more artful than most memoirs
and more true than most novels."--Bookish
"Moonglow explores the war, sex, and technology of mid-century
America in all its glory and folly. It's simultaneously Chabon's
most imaginative and personal work to date."--November Preview: The
Millions Most Anticipated
"Moonglow is another literary tour de force by one of America's
great writers, extraordinary rich and poignant."--Jonathyan Kirsch,
The Jewish Journal
"Moonglow is most fundamentally a credible and carnal love story.
You so love the two grandparents that you have a stake in their
literal existence. You want the world to be like this, not just
some book. Art, such magical stuff is called."--Robert Christgau,
The Village Voice
"[Very powerful].... Gorgeously written and shaded with sadness, a
story of recklessness, bravery and loss that spans the 20th
century."--Kevin Canfield, Kansas City Star
"A dying grandfather transports the reader through an entire era
via lyrical tales of war, love and model rockets."--Time
"A flamboyantly imaganitive work of fiction dressed in the sheep's
clothing of autobiography....His most confident and complex
performance....Moonglow is a movingly bittersweet novel that
balances wonder with lamentation."--Sam Sacks, The Wall Street
Journal
"A high-spirited pack of lies rakishly masquerading as a memoir....
Delicious."--Marion Winik, Newsday
"A magical family narrative that is as grand and mysterious as the
literary form in which he presents it."--Kevin Nance, Poets &
Writers
"A marvel of melancholy enchantment."--Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay
Times
"A poignant, engrossing triumph."--People
"A story as much about the art of storytelling as it is about
family, history, and the 20th century, Moonglow is a dazzling
achievement."--Buzzfeed
"Absolutely brilliant.... Stylistically and emotionally, Moonglow
took our breath away over and over."--iBooks Review
"All stories worth telling are at their hearts mysteries, a search
for missing pieces. This is true of both fact and fiction, a point
the book deftly makes by the sly counterpoint of those categories.
In Moonglow, Chabon has taken on that search with a quiet, cosmic
playfulness."--Talya Zax, Forward
"An exercise in exploring the slippery nature of truth, memory and
what makes a compelling story. Are stories 'just names and dates
and places [that don't] add up to anything?' like Grandpa suggests?
Or are they, instead, something more illusive, more aching, more
mysterious and meaningful. In terms of Moonglow, it's definitely
the latter."--Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle
"An exuberant meld of fiction and family history.... It's the
caliber of his writing-evocative sentences and indelible
metaphors-that gives the novel its luster.... Moonglow prisms
through a single life the desires and despair of the Greatest
Generation, whose small steps and giant leaps continue to shape us
all."--Hamilton Cain, O Magazine
"Chabon aims for the moon and successfully touches down on the
lunar surface.... An emotional tale of love and loss; fabulous, at
times magical, writing. Moonglow floats through time and space to
carry the reader to a fascinating new world."--Jonathan Elderfield,
Associated Press
"Chabon renders an entire era within a single deathbed
confession--a scale model of life after the Second World
War."--Cody Delistraty, The New Yorker
"Chabon writes with the aplomb of a test pilot,"--Michael Merschel,
Dallas Morning News
"Charming and elegantly structured.... What seduces the reader is
Chabon's language, which reinvents the world, joyously, on almost
every page."--Publishers Weekly
"Elegiac and deeply poignant ... Chabon weaves these
knotted-together tales together into a tapestry that's as
complicated, beautiful and flawed as an antique carpet.... Chabon
is one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists....
In Moonglow, he writes with both lovely lyricism and highly
caffeinated fervor."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Fascinating."--Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"His most beautifully realized novel to date ... a masterful and
resounding novel of the dark and blazing forces that forged our
tumultuous, confounding, and precious world."--Booklist, starred
review
"His prose is as luminous as ever."--Entertainment Weekly
"If we consider the novel a race and the memoir a marathon, Chabon
has been training for Moonglow his whole career."--Julia Cook, The
Stranger
"Intoxicating."--David Wright, Seattle Times
"Inventively fuses family history and fiction but leaves cracks for
happiness and meaning to shine through."--Rebecca Foster,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Like The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, and especially The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, this is classic Chabon: an
intensely personal story uplifted by the shifting tectonic plates
of truth and memory, floating atop his inimitably crafted,
sometimes audacious, always original prose."--Jon Foro, The Amazon
Book Review, Spotlight Pick
"Luminous.... The story builds to core revelations of wartime
horror and postwar heartbreak as powerful as they come."--Library
Journal, starred review
"Michael Chabon fills this dashing, Technicolor tribute to his
grandfather's generation with outsize mythology. Space travel and
sorcery are just two of the novel's wondrous themes. The book, his
best yet, cements his place in the front of American
writers."--Best Book of the Year, The Wall Street Journal
"Perhaps the most accessible of America's great literary novelists
since the death of John Updike."--Kevin Nance, USA Today, starred
review
"Radiant."--Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair
"Refreshing honest, funny, and succint: Chabon in a nutshell....
Moonglow is a long, elegant mess that feels like truth. It is both
elegiac and immeditate, balanced between rambling, wrenching
emotion and clean descriptive precision."--Emily Simon, Buffalo
News
"Sparkling, richly satisfying."--BookPage, Top Fiction Pick
"The grandfather is a terrific character: difficult, complex,
admirable--at once unique and typical of a generation.... Audacious
and accomplished, Moonglow is a four-hundred-page love letter to
that generation, and one is thankful to Chabon for having brought
one of those characters so vividly back to life."--Francine Prose,
New York Review of Books
"The Pulitzer Prize winner's most probing and substantial book
yet."--Michael Upchurch, Boston Globe
"There's rarely a moment in this book ... when Chabon isn't
delivering some of the liveliest and richest writing to be found on
the current fiction scene."--Chris Barsanti, PopMatters
"This novel is Chabon's Apollo mission to the past, launched with
the same combination of ingenuity, dedication, and wonder."--Adam
Kirsch, Tablet
"Utterly enchanting. Chabon makes you believe, even as you know
you're being pulled along by the romance of a good story. Moonglow
is a novel about faith in storytelling itself."--Christine Pivovar,
The Rumpus
"Vibrant.... A feast for fans of the Pulitzer winner's magical
prose."--Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
"You will not find better, funnier, more varied writing in a novel
this year."--Katy Waldman, Slate
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