[Michael] Clune is out for something slightly different. “Gamelife” uses his memories of playing games as a lens through which to tell a literary coming-of-age story—a bildungsroman put forth in units of screen time. Tightly focussed on that evanescent period between the age of seven and early adolescence, the book’s chapters are each devoted to…

[Michael] Clune is out for something slightly different. “Gamelife” uses his memories of playing games as a lens through which to tell a literary coming-of-age story—a bildungsroman put forth in units of screen time. Tightly focussed on that evanescent period between the age of seven and early adolescence, the book’s chapters are each devoted to…