Wonder Boys

Publisher and industry reviews

Jacket review

'The natural exuberance and extravagance of Chabon's writing is matched by dazzling wit.' Sunday Telegraph 'A deliriously funny novel!Chabon's elegant style, perfectly realised characters and comic vision combine to make the most enjoyable novel of the year.' Esquire 'A wonderfully teasing comic novel!Chabon juggles all these preoccupations with a quirky deftness he employs in his first novel.' Independent '"Wonder Boys" is a superb creation, a raucously comic yet deeply lyrical work. Chabon has evolved into a seriously funny writer, a master of the comic set-up.' Sunday Times

UK Kirkus review

Acclaimed author Grady Tripp, struggling with middle age and writer's block, is hurled into a chaotic weekend of blackly comic events involving drugs, dead pets, Marilyn Monroe's jacket and a death-obsessed student with a Frank Capra fixation. All the disasters that beset Grady serve only to highlight the deep flaws in his relationships with his wife, his mistress, his drug-addled gay best friend - who also happens to be his editor - and, most crucially, with his long-awaited magnum opus, a novel titled Wonder Boys... The author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh confirms his reputation as one of America's rising literary stars with this complex and inventive work of honesty, vigour and sadness, and some very, very funny moments indeed. (79-16) (Kirkus UK)

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