![]() And it turns out that he made it all up, and there’s this big scandal and he has to apologise, on television. “So he writes this novel, he can’t sell it, so he changes the word novel to memoir, sells it for a ton of money, it becomes an Oprah book, a huge bestseller. He’s on record as saying part of the inspiration for the book was for him to explore the strange way in which the perceived ‘truth’ of a memoir has been elevated above the truth of a novel in recent years, citing James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces as a case in point: ![]() Where Auster employs four versions of the same character to investigate the proverbial roads not taken, Chabon takes a real moment from his life (sitting by his grandfather’s deathbed, listening to final reminiscences) and uses that as a frame to build a fictional life story (albeit largely ‘told’ by a writer called Mike), told – in the style of all of the best literary novels – unchronologically. ![]() Like Paul Auster’s recent 4321, Michael Chabon’s latest novel has fun with the idea of memoir. ![]()
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