The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon: A Novel

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Summary: A very clever retelling of a classic story....
Review: When I read this book for some reason I was reminded of Garcia Marquez and his 100 Years of Solitude. The town of Excellent, Idaho has the same fantastic feel of end of the road as Macondo had. And the characters are as loony and misfits as Buendia and his relatives were. Except that now we are dealing with bisexual, or was that really gay, characters, overt prostitutes and all the little world of the remote frontier station. The harshness of the frontier is vividly recreated among the anything goes atmosphere of these people that had run away of everything and just could not be bothered anymore with details and conventions. I did not care much for all the spiritual subtext but somehow it went well with the story, as the author convinces you to forget about your points of reference and let yourself go elsewhere. The writing is excellent and I shall look forward more writing from this author, which by now is overdue.

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Summary: Magical Realism meets the Gay far West.
Review: When I read this book for some reason I was reminded of Garcia Marquez and his 100 Years of Solitude. The town of Excellent, Idaho has the same fantastic feel of end of the road as Macondo had. And the characters are as loony and misfits as Buendia and his relatives were. Except that now we are dealing with bisexual, or was that really gay, characters, overt prostitutes and all the little world of the remote frontier station. The harshness of the frontier is vividly recreated among the anything goes atmosphere of these people that had run away of everything and just could not be bothered anymore with details and conventions. I did not care much for all the spiritual subtext but somehow it went well with the story, as the author convinces you to forget about your points of reference and let yourself go elsewhere. The writing is excellent and I shall look forward more writing from this author, which by now is overdue.