All the things I'd loved about Chabon's early work - the surreal Bruno Schulz flourishes, the picturesquely neurotic characters, that radiant voice - were suddenly loathsome. Moonglow holds itself out to the reader as the memoir of Chabon's grandfather, narrated to the author on the old man's deathbed. The brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form itself, a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability and versatility of the novel. Win a copyThe ODT has five copies of Moonglow, by Michael Chabon, to give away courtesy of Fourth Estate and HarperCollins. For your chance to win a copy, email helen.speirs@odt.co.nz with your name and postal address in the body of the email, and ‘‘Moonglow Book Competition’’ in the subject line, by 5pm Tuesday, January 17.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 15, 2017 17:56 UTC