Master of male despair ; The Yiddish Policemen's Union

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: July 23, 2007| Author: WILLIAM LEITH | Copyright information

by Michael Chabon (4th Estate, 17.99)

MI C H A E L Chabon, who wrote a successful book in his early twenties, and won the Pulitzer Prize when he was 38, has an extraordinary talent for writing about middleaged men in the throes of desperation.

He is superb at depicting the male mid-life crisis.

Why? It turns out that, after the success of his first book, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, he had a nightmare with his second, finally abandoning it after having written more than 1,...

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