This is Michael Chabon's first novel and I really enjoyed it. It's about the summer after Art Bechstein finishes college and before he figures out the rest of his life. It's a topsy turvey kind of summer where a lot of things don't make sense right off the bat, but by the end, they become glaringly ...
Mobster's son from Pennsyltucky graduates from university, dopes around town with literate thugs, experiments as practicing polyamorous bisexual.Aesthetically proficient but ideologically empty. Good first effort from author while he was still doing his MFA, apparently.
here's the thing: i'm always with chabon right at the beginning. i think, "yeah, i'm starting to see why all these people are crazy about chabon" and then my attention begins to wander, and i feel myself getting antsy and i am thinking "aren't we done yet? how the hell did we get here from there?" a...
Fantastic. Now I'm off to (re)read [b:The Great Gatsby|4671|The Great Gatsby|F. Scott Fitzgerald|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41y8NUX-KnL._SL75_.jpg|245494] before even attempting any kind of review.
I really really enjoyed two thirds of this novel. It was very entertaining though I think comparing it to Gatsby it more than a bit much. Then there is a left turn which I can't say I've quite figured out how I feel about yet. Part of me feels betrayed (not a criticism but perhaps a testmant to e...
Might I just say that over the last few days I’ve found it intensely irritating when anything has come between this book and me. Suckered in from the opening sentences:At the beginning of the summer I had lunch with my father, the gangster, who was in town for the weekend to transact some of his vag...
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