![]() ![]() Moonglow (Harper, 448 pp., ***½ stars out of four), the author’s latest, is perhaps the apotheosis of these trends in his work. For that we turn instead to John Irving and, more recently, to Donna Tartt.Ī typical Chabon novel is less about what its characters do than what they say and think texture and atmosphere routinely trump narrative momentum and suspense. ![]() Michael Chabon, perhaps the most accessible of America’s great literary novelists since the death of John Updike, has never been much noted for his way with a plot. ![]()
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