Chabon! Chabon! Chabon!
There is no experience I enjoy more than opening a book and instinctively knowing I’m in for a pleasant ride. Ladies and Gents The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Michael Chabon’s detective story set in an alternate world were Alaska has been declared a Jewish state – a notion so fascinating you gladly dip into the detective noir plotline – has snapped me up from the very first page. Along with Jonathan Lethem, another young American writer who never fails to amaze me, I always know where I stand with this writer. Wonderboys was amusing, warm and bitter-sweet. The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay not only managed to capture the early days of the comic book industry, but was a beautiful story of post-WWII characters struggling in America.
I just like the guy, what can I say?
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