Its successor, Wonder Boys (1995), was an extended comic romp set in the literary world, which partly satirises the author’s own Foster Wallace-ish attempt to write a contemporary epic which finally sputtered to a halt at around 1500 inconclusive pages. Few writers have so securely maintained a foot in both camps, even as publishers have prised them ever further apart.Ĭhabon’s career began with an eye-catching advance for his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), an unexpectedly charming bisexual coming-of-age story. If such an award had existed by the dawn of the new millennium, it would surely have gone before long to the American novelist Michael Chabon. Michael Chabon, Moonglow (Harper, 2016) 430pp.Ī publishing world replete with literary prizes answering to all categories ought by now to have established an award for authors who have most successfully bridged the gaping chasm between popular fiction and the literary novel. Stuart Walton reviews the latest novel by acclaimed author Micheal Chabon, arguing that the famed author is in a transitional stage and speculating where it might lead.
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