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...such doldrum, adrift in giddiness or despair, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. Sure enough, Wonder Boys (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is, rather too cutely, not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel his hero Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. Tripp's well-reviewed early books are receding into the distant past, and he feels fraudulent when his writing students admire them. He pretends optimism to his editor, but the truth is that his half-written book is an unreadable mass of unstrung chapters...
Every neurosis known to man and Freud is shared by the two dysfunctional writers who hurtle through the obstaclecourse plot of Wonder Boys. Grady Tripp, who narrates the novel, has produced no new books in the seven years that he has taught creative writing at a small Pittsburgh college. Instead, he spends his time smoking huge amounts of marijuana and churning out thousands of pages of his own novel, also called Wonder Boys, which he knows he will never finish. James Leer, one of Grady's students, is twenty years younger but no less screwed up. An awkward loner...
...when his short story collection, "A Model World," appeared. And then? Well, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. "Wonder Boys" (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel that character Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. TIME critic John Skow pans Wonder Boys as a "series of funny scenes about not writing a novel that somehow don't hang together as a novel...
...play limited the scoring chances early on. Harvard registered 10 first-period shots on goal, but RPI (16-13-4) had the best chance to take the lead when Tim Regan stripped the puck from Harvard defenseman Ashlin Halfnight and broke in alone only to be denied by goaltender Tripp Tracy...
Junior goalie Tripp Tracy acknowledged that the crowds have been subpar, but that it hasn't affected the team's performance...