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...this delicious collection of personality flaws, twentysomething sophomore author Michael Chabon contructs a wildly comic, manically paced novel, combining slapstick comedy and a clever satire of academia with an ongoing meditation on the peculiar life of the writer. Chabon's light touch allows him to present the most absurd situations, and the most open sentimentality, without a trace of awkwardness...
...loving, knowing observation of Grady and his world is the novel's greatest strength. When he does not attempt to philosophize, Chabon pulls off his comic stunts with grace, and we can't help but applaud. Wonder Boys is a successful and clever second novel, and it leaves us looking forward to Chabon's third...
...reach of the administration but have not lost their role in campus social life. The administration has created a monster that it cannot control, and that will continue to go about its business until it is marginalized by a competing social structure, or until the University finds an effective, clever way of exerting some control...
...being clever about this, it justhappens to be the fact," he added
...play has all the clever twists we look for in a romantic farce. Yet in its bitterness and scorching profanity, it is miles from the lightheartedness of traditional farce. It's an unsteady, if engrossing, marriage of the light and bubbly and the down and dirty. One result is that its implausibilities nag us as they wouldn't in pure farce, where nobody asks that things stay plausible so long as they remain entertaining...