Title: This is Grady Tripp's Runaway Novel
Review: Chabon's "Wonder Boys" was a fantastic novel. Read it. (The movie adaptation was also excellent.) In it, professor and author Grady Tripp is writing a novel that runs to several thousand pages with no sign of ending. He cannot control what does and does not go in or focus on a through-line.Although only 656 pages, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" is Chabon's runaway novel. If you are very interested in comic books, there is a good 200 page novel in there somewhere. If you are very interested in World War II era Eastern European refugess and their lives in the United States, there is a good 200 pages of that in there somewhere. But as it stands, they are not worth digging out of "Kavalier & Clay".Chabon has done some excellent work and has been very successful. And most authors have a great investment in their work. But Chabon's editor needs to stand up more firmly. In the meantime, read (or re-read) "Wonder Boys".
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