The powerful play of extravagant motifs and the absurdly paradoxical has been Chabon’s trademark. Wonder Boys is a teemingly inventive story of a novelist unable to invent The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay celebrates the comic book as the American epic genre The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is an alternate-world crime caper which grapples with the subject, considerably above its genre’s pay grade, of antisemitism and the growing threat of a new Holocaust. His major novels, of which this is the fifth, engage with genre and with popular culture, and consistently ask what it is to render experience fully. His bibliography is a little difficult to unpick since, with titles such as Werewolves in Their Youth, Gentlemen of the Road and The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man, he ventures regularly into pulp genres that hardly exist any more. Three substantial statements at least have been published over the last six months: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Here I Am, Paul Auster’s 4321, and now Michael Chabon’s Moonglow.Ĭhabon is perhaps the most startlingly inventive novelist from this line of tradition. Saul Bellow, JD Salinger, Philip Roth defined and redefined the subject it continues to exert considerable power.
F rom the second world war onwards, many of the most compelling novelists in the US have been Jewish men, explicitly concerned with the position of Jews in the world today.
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