I read this delightful little morsel by Michael Chabon in two hours, and after I finished I decided that this book belongs to its own genre, the Literary Yarn. Following the adventures of two unlikely companions, this exuberant tale has all the swordplay and derring-do of an old dime novel, but is written with the style and linguistic acrobatics of a master wordsmith. I marveled at the manner in which Chabon took a sweeping epic and kept it to a mere 196 pages, but without making it feel condensed. (If anything, the book seems more expansive because of its brevity.) Full of wonderful characters that are beautifully rendered, I cannot recommend this one highly enough. A real charmer.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Book Review: GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD
I read this delightful little morsel by Michael Chabon in two hours, and after I finished I decided that this book belongs to its own genre, the Literary Yarn. Following the adventures of two unlikely companions, this exuberant tale has all the swordplay and derring-do of an old dime novel, but is written with the style and linguistic acrobatics of a master wordsmith. I marveled at the manner in which Chabon took a sweeping epic and kept it to a mere 196 pages, but without making it feel condensed. (If anything, the book seems more expansive because of its brevity.) Full of wonderful characters that are beautifully rendered, I cannot recommend this one highly enough. A real charmer.
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