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Title: Emotionally Detached
Review: There is little formally wrong with Chabon's Wonder Boys. The laughs are there, and the narrator is amusing and can turn a phrase well. Unfortunately, the novel is uneven in this regard. Very brilliant sections and followed by dull ones, where the effort seems to fall flat. The large middle section of the book involving the quirky Passover seder reads like a set piece of other seders going terribly wrong.In the end, this so-called dark musing on contemporary writing and the life it generates is curiously detached, emotionally uninvolved, and even trite. Is this the work of the "great" Michael Chabon?
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