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This first novel by Chabon shows his promise as a writer. He manages to write characters that are compelling even when he isn't sure what he wants to say about them. This is a coming of age story, with the honesty, confusion, sexual experimentation, and fantasy of so many young men. This may not be the story of the author's own actual life, but it reads like the story that you can at least imagine that 24-year-old author Chabon kind of wished was his life, if not really, at least in novelistic f
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The only Chabon I haven't read; somehow in my 2002 Chabon-reading binged I missed this one.
I don't think I'll ever find a Chabon that I love as much as I love Wonder Boys; there's just something about that novel that hits every single one of my buttons. That said, this was enjoyable but strange. Clearly a first novel, and clearly Chabon gets better, but I found the ending strange and a little upsetting, and not even upsetting in a good way. Just ... abrupt and not what the characters deserved o ...more
I don't think I'll ever find a Chabon that I love as much as I love Wonder Boys; there's just something about that novel that hits every single one of my buttons. That said, this was enjoyable but strange. Clearly a first novel, and clearly Chabon gets better, but I found the ending strange and a little upsetting, and not even upsetting in a good way. Just ... abrupt and not what the characters deserved o ...more
I love Michael Chabon, but haven't read much of his early stuff. Pre-Pulitzer, he is much lighter and accessible. This is about a recent college grad discovering himself, and making bad decisions. I loved it.
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Read this 'cause I loved Kavalier and Clay and haaaaaaated it so much. He was young, and it shows.
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May 18, 2007
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it was amazing
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