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Apr. 2nd, 2004 01:51 pmI started reading Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh yesterday. It may not be Kavalier and Clay, but boy is it good! It was Chabon's first book, and his style seems slightly more self-conscious here, but I think that's to be expected in a first book. Also, it was written in the eighties, and definitely feels like a product of its time. I don't think it's dated, exactly, but there is just a sort of eighties-lit feel to it that I can't quite explain. Maybe little bit of a Jay McInerney influence or something like that.
Regardless of all of that stuff, I'm really enjoying the book. I don't know how Chabon, a married man with a family, got so good at writing these heartbreaking homosexual romances. My word. He just perfectly crystallizes that sense of longing between two men that slays me every time. For some reason, I seem to have been surrounded by male homosexuality lately: Kavalier and Clay, Yossi and Jagger, the Regeneration trilogy, and now this book, which I didn't even know had a gay theme at all! Anyhow, Chabon does a great job of conveying Art's conflicted feelings about Arthur.
Regardless of all of that stuff, I'm really enjoying the book. I don't know how Chabon, a married man with a family, got so good at writing these heartbreaking homosexual romances. My word. He just perfectly crystallizes that sense of longing between two men that slays me every time. For some reason, I seem to have been surrounded by male homosexuality lately: Kavalier and Clay, Yossi and Jagger, the Regeneration trilogy, and now this book, which I didn't even know had a gay theme at all! Anyhow, Chabon does a great job of conveying Art's conflicted feelings about Arthur.
