It's totally not even something I realized until I started thinking about it--I love The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and Summerland is probably on my top 10 list of best fantasy books ever, simply because it's so refreshingly and thoroughly American. But men and boys are the ones who get to have fun, or to be the protagonists, in Chabon's books. It's as much a shame (and a waste of his talent) as the fact that he can't or won't let himself actually write genre fiction.
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Date: 2009-05-26 01:22 (UTC)It's totally not even something I realized until I started thinking about it--I love The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and Summerland is probably on my top 10 list of best fantasy books ever, simply because it's so refreshingly and thoroughly American. But men and boys are the ones who get to have fun, or to be the protagonists, in Chabon's books. It's as much a shame (and a waste of his talent) as the fact that he can't or won't let himself actually write genre fiction.