![]() ![]() There is no mystery here, no adventurous quest (though the novel's younger characters briefly believe that there is, with mixed results)-just the stuff of literary fiction: broken marriages, endangered friendships, estranged parents and children. ![]() Telegraph Avenue sees Chabon writing, for the first time in years, without the guiding (some might say limiting) structure of a genre plot. The works he's produced over that period have ranged across such genres and styles as alternate history ( The Yiddish Policemen's Union, for which Chabon won the Hugo and Nebula awards), pastiche ( The Final Solution), YA ( Summerland), and swashbuckling adventure ( Gentlemen of the Road) while indulging in unabashed love for such beloved geek artifacts as comic books, superheroes, Sherlock Holmes, and Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné. For a little over a decade, Chabon has been the standard-bearer for the intermingling of genre tropes and literary fiction (and the writer to whom genre fans would frequently point to as an example of an outsider who "gets it" and values genre's contributions to our culture). Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon's eighth novel, is the most low-concept thing he's written since the last century. ![]()
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