Don's review
Summerland by Michael Chabon
Don's review
rating:
recommended for: children who love wild adventure
status: Read in October, 2007
rating:
recommended for: children who love wild adventure
status: Read in October, 2007
While I had trouble falling into the story, the writing, as would be expected with venerable Mr. Chabon, was superb.
I read this book on the recommendation of my daughter and my wife as they both really loved the book. As a kids book goes, this thing is packed with everything that make children's literature memorable and stuffed with so much more that I hope children everywhere get the opportunity to read this book.
Using baseball as The Creation Story, Michael Chabon delightfully spins every complicated thing that is usually explained by one religious parable or another is explained via the 9-inning game combined with supernatural nature. As usual, Chabon serves his metaphor in such a beautiful vessel that, like a good special effect in a movie, you don’t even realize you’re experiencing it until the through has been established in your brain.
As I said, for some reason, I had a hard time getting into the story but with Chabon’s ever-present bewildering imaginativ...more
I read this book on the recommendation of my daughter and my wife as they both really loved the book. As a kids book goes, this thing is packed with everything that make children's literature memorable and stuffed with so much more that I hope children everywhere get the opportunity to read this book.
Using baseball as The Creation Story, Michael Chabon delightfully spins every complicated thing that is usually explained by one religious parable or another is explained via the 9-inning game combined with supernatural nature. As usual, Chabon serves his metaphor in such a beautiful vessel that, like a good special effect in a movie, you don’t even realize you’re experiencing it until the through has been established in your brain.
As I said, for some reason, I had a hard time getting into the story but with Chabon’s ever-present bewildering imaginativ...more
