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I've read a few of Chabon's novels (though several years back now) and remember enjoying them all pretty well. This is a work of nonfiction, a collection of short anecdotes/essays, exploring a variety of loose themes including masculinity, fatherhood, marriage, childhood, nostalgia, and the life of a writer. His writing is captivating - so many sentences blew me away with the originality of their construction, the images he chose, the metaphors he painted, the deep sense of reflection and insight he's able to draw from even the most mundane moments in our lives. On the whole, I found the book a little on the bleak side emotionally, in a Woody Allen kind of way - so tempered with periodic self-deprecating humor to make it more palatable. On the whole, it wasn't enough to deter me from enjoying his dazzling linguistic gymnastics, as well as his keen and thought-provoking commentary on the society we live in.
In describing a bad relationship: "There were operatic arguments, all-night ransackings of the contest of our souls, drunken vituperations, migraines, rages, grim gray bitter mornings. We traveled, and moved, and bought a house and acquired animals and engaged in all the standard ploys and dodges, short of having children (thank God), employed by couples trying to outrun the shadow of that first enduring mistake." (pg. 116, from 'The Heartbreak Kid')
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In describing a bad relationship: "There were operatic arguments, all-night ransackings of the contest of our souls, drunken vituperations, migraines, rages, grim gray bitter mornings. We traveled, and moved, and bought a house and acquired animals and engaged in all the standard ploys and dodges, short of having children (thank God), employed by couples trying to outrun the shadow of that first enduring mistake." (pg. 116, from 'The Heartbreak Kid')
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